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48 *A Twelve Month's Voyage
Letter I. rains: But intheCountreysnearthe supposedSourseof AV/e, it does
•^v^w to Excess.
But you who have greater Reading and Leisurc to dsgest these
Metaphyseal Notions, will mightily oblige me to furniih me with
your solider Arguments. '
Among which I would intreat you to consider the Variety of the
Loadstone in the common Chart: For what the incomparably Irge-
nuous Des Cartes has wrote on that Subject, acquiesces only in mo-
dest Hypotheticks, riot any ways informing the Understanding to a
clear Apprehension; but after he has brought it through the Maze
of Probabilities, he parts with it at the same Predicament it entrcd.
TheTaihsihe Not to deviate any longer, we are now winding about the South'
Zkpimt. ype0 part of Ceilm. wjjere we nave tne saii 0s tl,e £iepha„t fa\\ jn
our mouths; a Conssellation by the Portugal; called Rabo del Ele-
phanto, known for the breaking up of the Mmsoons, which is the last
Flory this Season makes, generally concluding with September,
which goes out with dismal Storms.
Water-Snakes. Yet lb good is Providence, as to warn us here, when all is obseured,
by Water-Snakes, of our too near approach to the Land; which are
as sure Presages on the Indian Coasts, as the C^-Birds are there.
Tiie disse- Here the Mountains running Bast and Weft, the Winds are to the
"""°n_th* Bast of the South, and to the West of the North; else quadrating
with those on Coromandel; only here in April and May the Winds
are variable, and then they hasten to leave these Coasts for Perjia, the
Red-Sea, and South'Seas, or those make in that are to return hither;
otherwise they run an hazard of losing their Voyage, when the South
to the South-Bast Wind is fixed, which continues to the latter end of
September, or beginning of Qclober: Then from the North to the
North-West sets in again ,• and this Course is observed mbstly on ail
the Www Shores, only somefewdaysdifterentin the beginning and
ending, which happen to the South, and in Lands commonly earlier
than to the North, and break up later when they are more severe, but
the Intervals are milder; the middle Months clearing up in the day
time; but from the first setting to the going out towards the North,
the Sun hardly fiiews his Face, unless a Fortnight after the Full Moon
in May, and a Fortnight before the Elephanto.
CGemini
rf£es& 0n the Coastof Suratfromj to
(.Libra.
This happens in the Sun's Ecliptkk Road.
rTaurus
On the Coast of Coromandeliiom-^ to
(^Scorpio.
And thus much may be said in general; only the Land and Sea-
Breezes in particular, on this Coast of Surat and Malabar, when the
Rainsareover, keep exactly Land-Breezes srom Midnight to Mid-
day , and Sea-Breezes from the Noon of Day to the Noon of
Night.
Making
Letter I. rains: But intheCountreysnearthe supposedSourseof AV/e, it does
•^v^w to Excess.
But you who have greater Reading and Leisurc to dsgest these
Metaphyseal Notions, will mightily oblige me to furniih me with
your solider Arguments. '
Among which I would intreat you to consider the Variety of the
Loadstone in the common Chart: For what the incomparably Irge-
nuous Des Cartes has wrote on that Subject, acquiesces only in mo-
dest Hypotheticks, riot any ways informing the Understanding to a
clear Apprehension; but after he has brought it through the Maze
of Probabilities, he parts with it at the same Predicament it entrcd.
TheTaihsihe Not to deviate any longer, we are now winding about the South'
Zkpimt. ype0 part of Ceilm. wjjere we nave tne saii 0s tl,e £iepha„t fa\\ jn
our mouths; a Conssellation by the Portugal; called Rabo del Ele-
phanto, known for the breaking up of the Mmsoons, which is the last
Flory this Season makes, generally concluding with September,
which goes out with dismal Storms.
Water-Snakes. Yet lb good is Providence, as to warn us here, when all is obseured,
by Water-Snakes, of our too near approach to the Land; which are
as sure Presages on the Indian Coasts, as the C^-Birds are there.
Tiie disse- Here the Mountains running Bast and Weft, the Winds are to the
"""°n_th* Bast of the South, and to the West of the North; else quadrating
with those on Coromandel; only here in April and May the Winds
are variable, and then they hasten to leave these Coasts for Perjia, the
Red-Sea, and South'Seas, or those make in that are to return hither;
otherwise they run an hazard of losing their Voyage, when the South
to the South-Bast Wind is fixed, which continues to the latter end of
September, or beginning of Qclober: Then from the North to the
North-West sets in again ,• and this Course is observed mbstly on ail
the Www Shores, only somefewdaysdifterentin the beginning and
ending, which happen to the South, and in Lands commonly earlier
than to the North, and break up later when they are more severe, but
the Intervals are milder; the middle Months clearing up in the day
time; but from the first setting to the going out towards the North,
the Sun hardly fiiews his Face, unless a Fortnight after the Full Moon
in May, and a Fortnight before the Elephanto.
CGemini
rf£es& 0n the Coastof Suratfromj to
(.Libra.
This happens in the Sun's Ecliptkk Road.
rTaurus
On the Coast of Coromandeliiom-^ to
(^Scorpio.
And thus much may be said in general; only the Land and Sea-
Breezes in particular, on this Coast of Surat and Malabar, when the
Rainsareover, keep exactly Land-Breezes srom Midnight to Mid-
day , and Sea-Breezes from the Noon of Day to the Noon of
Night.
Making