Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors ... / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford.

  • Willsford, Thomas
Date:
1658
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    ! Bal The Weathers Predition. 93 ‘great and high mountains in :thofe Conntrys; others.derived from Lakes, Rivers, Seas, &c. and denominated often from thence; as the Levant, ity | or Subfolanus, called alfo the Eaft-wind ; how they have been anciently devided.and nominated, See AN | Pliny, lib.2- cap..47. of his natural Hittory. | There may be as many winds as there be fup- | pofed divifions in the Horizon, which the Sea-mex (to avoid: confufion) do divide into 32. points, reprefented by the Compafs, diftinguifhing chofe points and parts of the Horizontal circle, by | feveral and peculiar names ; and foalfo the winds anfwering to thofe points, whereof in this] will ufe but eight, being fufficient for prognaftication, | and the chiefeft that are obferved: And firft, the | four principal or cardinal points are thefe, North, | South, Eaft, Weft, dividing the Horizon into four | quadrants or go.. degrees afiinder; and ‘thofe | equally divided by four points more ; all the eight | being 45. degrees from one another, ‘and are thefe | North: eaft, and North-weft, South-eaft, and Soutb= | weft: As for the temperatures of thefe-particular | winds, they are fo uncertain in every Country, - that I will wrice nothing of them more, but refer | youto the fecond part of this Book ; for in thefe Countrys the. North-wind is cold and dry; the South-winds warm and moift, making: our bodies generally dull, and caufeth moift weather, and pains in the head; whereas in the Southern parts ‘of America, and the Eaft-Indies, the effets of thefe winds are. quite contrary, participating of that nature from whence thofe exhalations were extra- . Ged: But the figns prefaged by the Stars, and de- rived from. the obfervations of learned men, are