Weather at Senegambia, Sic. 48 3 
fluxes in the months of April, May, and June, few peo- 
ple die, which, when compared with the numbers that 
die in the other feafon, juftifies the denomination. When 
the rains ceaie, the wind drifts its quarter, and is for the 
mod; part Eaft or North-eaft in the morning; but as the 
Sun rifes on the horizon, the wind changes more and 
more towards the North, till about noon, fooner or later, 
it gets to the Weft of North, which is called fea-breeze, 
and is very refrefhing, though it happens fometimes, 
that as the Sun falls again on the horizon, the wind wdll 
fhift again towards the Eaft, and continue there all night. 
This wind blow's fometimes very ftrong, and is always 
exceflively hot, drying up the lakes and pools, which 
had been formed by the heavy rains and the overflowing 
of the river, and producing in fuch as partake of fea 
water, a fine fea fait in large cryftals, not unlike foflil 
fait. In the months of February, March, April, May, 
and June, the wind blows almoft conftantly from be- 
tween North and Weft, called fea-breeze, except now 
and then a day or two it will be Eaft, which when it hap- 
pens in April makes it exceflively hot, the Sun being 
then in and about the zenith of Senegal, heating the vaft 
plains of fand over which this wind is to pafs before its 
arrival there, which, reverberating the received heat, 
may contribute toincreafeit; fori have obferved, that the 
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