CHAP. XVII.
I Agree that there are twelue windes, not because there arise many in ••uery country (for the inclination of the earth exclude••h some) but b••cause there are no more in any place. So say we that there are six cases, yet meane we not, that euery nowne hath six cases, but becau••e ••here is no nown that can haue more then six. They that haue proposed twelue windes, haue followed this reason•• that ••here are as many winds as th••re are parts of the heauen, which is diuided into fiue circles, which passe thorow the Cardines of the world, that is to say, the Northerne, Solstitiall, Equinocti∣all, Hibernal, and Meridional, to which is annexed a sixt, distinguishing, as thou knowest, the superiour part of the world, from the inferiour. For there is al∣wayes a halfe aboue, and another beneath. The Greekes haue called this line which is partly couered, and partly discouered, Horizon, we Finitor or Finiens. To this must wee adde the Meridian circle, which diuideth the Horizon by straight angles. Some of these circles goe sloapewise, and trauerse the others. But it is necessarie that there should be as great differences in the aire, as there is in the parts. So then the Horizon diuideth the fiue aboue-named circles, wher∣of it maketh ten parts, fiue to the Eastward, and fiue to the Westward. The Meridian circle, which encountereth with the Horizon, addeth two parts. If the aire haue twelue differences, so many windes maketh it. There are some that are proper to certaine places, which go not from one place to another, but bend themselues towards that which is next, without blowing from one end of the world to another. Atabulus molesteth Apulia; Iapix, Calabria; Sciron, Athens; Cataegis, Pamphilia; Circius, France; whose inhabitants cease not to giue him thankes, although he breaketh their buildings, as if they were bound vnto him for the bountie of their aire. At such time as the Emperour Augustus soiorned in France, he vowed and builded a Temple to this winde. It were an infinite matter if I should entreate of all other windes in particular, since for the most part, there is not any region that hath not some winde, that both breedeth and ceaseth in it, or about it.