CHAP. XLVIII.
¶ Of sudden Blasts.
NOw wil we speake of sudden blasts; which being risen (as hath bin said before) by exhala∣tions of the earth, and cast downe againe; in the meane while appeare of many fashions, enclosed within athin course of clouds newly ouercast. For such as be vnconstant, wande∣ring, and rushing in manner of land flouds (as some men were of opinion, as wee haue shewed) bring forth thunder and lightening. But if they come with a greater force, sway, and vio∣lence, and withall burst and cleaue a dry cloud asunder all abroad, they breed a storme, which of [unspec L] the Greeks is called Ecnephias: but if the clift or breach be not great, so that the wind be con∣strained to turne round, to roll and whirle in his discent, without fire (i.) lightening, it makes a whirle puffe or ghust called Typhon (i.) the storme Ecnephias aforesaid, sent out with a winding violence. This takes with it a piece broken out of a congealed cold cloud, turning, winding, and rolling it round, and with that weight maketh the owne fall more heauie, and changeth from place to place with a vehement and sudden whirling; the greatest danger and mischiefe that poore sailers haue at sea, breaking not onely their crosse saile yards, but also writhing and bur∣sting in pieces the very ships: and yet a small matter is the remedy for it, namely, the casting of vinegre out against it as it commeth, which is of nature most cold. The same storme beating [unspec M] vpon a thing, is it selfe smitten backe againe with a violence, and snatcheth vp whatsoeuer it meeteth in the way aloft into the skie, carrying it back, and swallowing it vp on high. But if it breake out from a greater hole of the said cloud, by it so borne down, and yet not altogether so broad as the abouenamed storm Procella doth, nor without a cracke; they call this boisterous