Of Winds and Sounds,

Many are the particular Causes which

produce Wind by interrupting the Equi-,

P°ise of the Atmosphere; but the most ge-

j* er al Causes are two, viz. H e at, which,

oy rarifying the Air, makes it lighter in some

^ a ces than it is in others; and Cold,

Mdch, by condensing it, makes it heavier,

^once it is, that in all Parts over the 'Torrid- • .

rhe Air being more rarified by a

j> re ater Quantity of the Solar Rays, is much^hter than in the other Parts of the At-mosphere, and most of all over the Equa-*j^ial Parts of the Earth; And since the*^rt s at the Equator are most rarifiedMsich are near the Sun ; and those Partsar e, by the Earth’s diurnal Rotation East-^ a rd t continually shifting to the West ; it sol-?

lows,

Winds are called by Seamen Monsons or Mon-

’J'sese

t Between io and 30 Degrees, from Madagascar§ New-Holland , the general Trade-Winds about;^Uth-E a fl. by East are found to blow all the Year long!he^ e ^ ame M anner > and for the fame Reasons as in-Other Oceans above-mentioned.

I ■yOring the Months of Alay, June, July , Augud, Sep~Ottober, the aforesaid South-East Winds e.;tend^thin two Degrees of the Equator ; after this, forjjj 6 other six Months, the contrary Winds set in, andj ( .°'yfr° rr i the North-West from the Latitude of 3 toAgrees South.

an 1 ®- From about three Degrees South Latitude, over^oe Arabian and Indian Seas and Gulph of BengalsVj 111 Sunialra to the Coast of Africa, there is anotherOsifoon, blowing from 0 Holer to April on the North-

East