A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.
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A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.
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London :: Printed by T. Milbourn, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster,
1672.
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The Weather.
The Weather of this Isle is less
certain then in the rest of the Ca∣ribbee
Islands; the most observa∣ble
wett seasons are in November
or May;* 1.1 there being no seem∣able
Winter but by a little more
Rain, and Thunder, in the winter
months.
The winds here constantly blow
all the day from nine in the mor∣ning
easterly, and become more
fresher as the Sun mounteth
higher, by reason of which, at
midd-day Travel or Labour is suf∣ferable.
But from eight at Night
to about eight in the Morning, it
frequently blows Westerly; and
with these Winds, or Breezes, the
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Vessells get out of the Harbours,
and ply to wind-ward.
There is scarce any sencible
lengthning or shortning of the
Days or Nights,* 1.2 but are almost
alwayes of an equal length.
The Sea ebbs and flowes sel∣dome
above a foot.
Hurricanes are here never
known, as before I have noted;
nor hath any Vessel been lost, or
cast away on the Coast, since the
English were Masters of it.