Of Winds and Sounds’.

^' ar efaSHon, and, by flowing towards it,it, have less Motion than those Parts

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if s > and such is their Violence, that they seem to bethe Nature of the TVeJl-India Hurricanes, and rendere Navigation of those Parts very unsafe at that Time^ the Year. These Tempests the Seamen call there oking up of the Monsoons.

^5- The Cause of the Monsoons , or periodical11

^dsj is owing to the Course of the Sun NorthwardIse Equator one Half of the Year, and Southwardj\. e other. While he passes through the six Northern£§0s of the Ecliptic, the various Countries of Arabia,s r s lf! i India, and China are heated, and reflect great0^*0 tit its of the Solar Rays into the Regions of the'‘blent Atmosphere, by which Means it becomes| ea tly rarified > and has its Equilibrium of course de-ctoyed - to restore which, the Air, as well from they‘Natorial Parts Southwards, where' it is colder, asi 0tl1 the colder Northern Climes, must necessarily haved e ‘idency or Motion towards those Parts, and so pro-J? Ces the Monsoons for the first six Months, duringlc h Time the Heat of those Countries is greatest.v *6* Then for the other six Months, the Sun tra-y 'ng the Ocean and Countries towards the Southern^ r °pic, while in the six Southern Signs, causes the Air^ those Parts to be now most heated and rarified ;consequently the Equatorial Air to alter its Course,the Winds to veer quite about, and blow upon the"P°site Points of the Compass.

se *7- These are the general Affections of constant andjef ll ^ ar Winds ; none of which are found not fub-tliff t0 Lottie Variation and Exception, on account of theSit ere . nt Circumstances.of Heat, Cold, Land, Water,b a tion, &c. concerning all which I shall refer the*he i to Doctor’s own large historical Account ofi n Winds, published in the ‘Transactions, or Mifcel-ffuriofa. Vol I. /

r rom what has been said, ’tis easy to understand,hnce so large a Portion of the Atmosphere as

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