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Title:  Jamaica viewed with all the ports, harbours, and their several soundings, towns, and settlements thereunto belonging together, with the nature of it's climate, fruitfulnesse of the soile, and its suitableness to English complexions. With several other collateral observations and reflexions upon the island. / By E.H.
Author: Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.
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every year, yet our Summers and Winters are not equally hot and cold, and therefore we must seek out for more intrinsecal and occult causes; which now (are not the Asylum of ignorance) since we can certainly a∣scribe them to the Sun's Conjunction (improperly termed an Aspect) and his Aspects with other Planets, toge∣ther with his configurations, with the Fixed starres: for the weather is usu∣ally the hottest with us in England, af∣ter the Sun hath taken his leave of us from his nearest visit, and most fervent Complement, in the foot of Gemini, with his old fashion'd Congee in the Right knee and shoulder of Orion, and Auriga: and our hottest seasons are the Dogge dayes; yet doth not the Sun accompany the lesser heavenly Dogge, till he come to his feminine nocturnal and unfortunate Lodging, which is in the eighteenth Degree of Cancer; of wch more at large you may consult Astronomy; my business here 0