CHAP. XLV.
¶ Of Windes againe.
NOw there be certaine caues and holes which breed windes continually without end: like [unspec E] as that is one which we see in the edge of Dalmatia, with a wide mouth gaping, & lea∣ding to a deep downfall: into which if you cast any matter of light weight, be the day ne∣uer so calm otherwise, there ariseth presently a stormie tempest like a whirle puffe. The places name is Senta. Moreouer, in the prouince Cyrenaica there is reported to be a rock consecrated to the South-wind, which without prophanation may not be touched with mans hand; but if it be, presently the South wind doth arise and cast vp heaps of sand. Also in many houses there be hollow places deuised & made by mans hand for receipt of wind, which being inclosed with shade and darknesse, gather their blasts. Whereby we may see how all winds haue one cause or other. But great difference there is betweene such blasts and winds. As for these, they be setled and ordinarie, continually blowing; which, not some smal tracts & particular places, but whole [unspec F] lands do feele; which are not light gales nor stormy puffes, named Aurae and Procellae, but simply called winds, by the Masculine name Venti: which whether they arise by the continuall motion of the heauen, and the contrary course of the Planets; or whether this winde be that spirit of Nature that engendreth all things, wandering to and fro as it were in some wombe; or rather