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Show Wi wil the ceneral Defien for thefe o[fesy i not be ftudied to nae the. feveral s correfpot t, for that is fo formal 1s to be now quite rejected; the ‘ficy there is in the Diltribution ‘the more Pleafure they will and fince, according to this Method ning and Planting, thedifferent Parts ever do preient them!felves to the fame View, fo it is no matter howdifferent they are varied der; that Part of them which is moft in e Houfe or other Parts of the ay be planted with Evergreens 5 other Parts maybe planted with deciduous Trees in the foregoing manner. The Part planted with Evergreens may be »0s’d_ in the following manner, . in the next the great Walks, may be Tinus, ~Boxes, § el. and other dwarf Evergreens ; hefe may be placed Laurels, Hol. *s, and other Evergreens of a larger fe may be placed Alarea’ i other Trees ofthe lane Growth ; may be planted Norway and the True Pine, and other Sorts of ; and in the Middle fhould ch te s, Pinafter, and other of oreens, which will he Wii trived, it will greatly improve the Places, and deceive thofe who are unacquainted with the ful in Navigation, bat of no great Concernin Ground, as to its Size. Thefe ree or little Seek of Evergreens thould be placed juft beyondthe plain Opening of Grafs before the Houfe, where the Eye will be carried from the plain Surface of Grafs, to the regu- Hint that the Wind blows from all Parts of the Heavens. lar Slope of Evergreens, to the great Pleaiure Some Philofophers, as Des Cartes, Koha &c. account for the general Windfromthediurnal Rotation of the Earth; and from this ef the Beholder; but if there is a diftant Profpeét of the adjacent Country from the Houle, then this fhould not be obftructed, but rather a larger Opening allow’d for the View, bounded on each Side with thefe rifing Clumps, which may be extended to half the Compafs of the Ground: And on the back Part from the Sight, maybe planted the feve- ral Kinds of flowering Shrubs, according to their different Growths, whichwill ftill add to the Variety. Thefe {mall Quarters fhould not be furrounded with Hedges for the Reafons before given for the larger Plantations; nor fhould they be cut into Angles, or any other ftudied Figures, but be defign’d rather in a rural Manner, which is alw: ways preferable to the other for thefe Kinds of Plantations. lerneffes there is but little Trouble or Expence after their firft planting, which is an Addition to their Value; the only Labourre quired, is to mow androll the large Grafs Walks, and to keep the other Ground Walks atiord aae delightful Profpeét, if the c free from Weeds. ferent Shades of their Greens are curioufly in- the Weeds are hoed down two or three times in a Summer, it will ftill add to their Neat- i in order to render the Variety may be many Kinds of hardy in’d from the North Parts of y fome in £y very fit for this Purpote, *d in different Parts of this er of feparating the Evergreens siduous Trees, will not only make Appearance, but alfo caufe far beyond what they ufually rmix’d; therefore I fhould never And in the Quarters if nefs. The Trees fhould alfo be prunedto cut out all dead Wood or irregular Branches, where they crofs each other, “and juft to preferve them within due Bounds; and, as was before obferved, if the Ground be flightly dug between the Trees, it will greatly promote their Vigour. This being the whole Labour of a Wilderne/s, *tis no Wonder they are fo generally efteem’d, efpecially when we confider the Pleafure theyafford. SWEET-WILLIAMS; wide Caryo phyllus Barbatus. 1 concerning the Plantone behind another, Growths, I would ood, that I meanthe plaLines, which is too fiff WILLOW: vide Salix. WILLOWthe French ; vide Chamenerion. WIND, is defin’d to be the Streamee Plantations ;. all that is Current ot the Air, together with fuch Va- to pi vce the Front Rowsof Trees Walks, at an equal Diftance of the ihee3 but the Lines ecially the e firft) muft turn yanner 2s ee Walks; thofe be- pours as the Air carries along with it: Orit is a fenfible Agitation of the “Air, whereby a placed af any manner, pro- taken to allow each fufficient I here may appear no : Dittar e of their Heads, all rife gradually, 1o as may Natural Philofophy, unlefs it be to give a As to the Phyfical Caufeof Winds. cording to the four Cardinal Points; but this was quickly look’d upon as too grofs a Divifion; the following Ageaddedeight more to this Number, hichh was though t too and a fubdividing ; and therefore e) reduc’dthe y otHar or Account. But our Shee who are {i yond the Antients for their Skill in Ni tion, have dlivided the Horizon into T | four Cardi l Twenty-cight to ring, exceeding ule loft, is again reftored; and thus the Eafterly Wind ii s madeperpetual. Bromthe fame Principle it follows, that Wind fhould on the North Side of «quatorPee to the Northwards of the Eaft; and in South Latitudes, to the Southward thereof; for near the Line the Air is much general Wind derive all the particularones. more rarefied, than ata greater Diftance from it; becaufe the Sunis twice in a Yearvertical there, and at no Time diftant above 23 Degrees +5 at which Diftance the Heat being at of the Angle of Incidence, is but little They fay, the Atmofphere invefling the Earth, and moving round it, that Part will perform its Circuit fooneft, which has the the tmalleft Circle to defcribe. {tay long vertical, yet he is a long 47 Degrees off3 which isa kind of Winter, wherein The Air there- fore near the Equator, will require a fomewhat longer Time to perform its Courfe in from Weft. to Eat than that nearer the Poles, that as the Earth turns Eaftward, the Particles ofthe Air near the Equinodtial, being exceeding light, are left behind, fo that in refpect ne fhort of that of the perpendicular Ray. WwW ai under the Tropicks, tho’ the Sun the Air fo cools, as that the Summer Heat cannot warmit to the fame Degree withthat Wherefore the Air to- under the Equator. wards the Northward and Southward being lefs rarefied than that in the Middle, it fol- ot the Earth’s Surface they move Weftwards, lows, that from both Sides it ought to tend and become a conftant Ea/terly Wind. This Opinion feems confirm’d, for that towards the eye ‘This Motion, compounded with the former Eafterly Wind, anfwers all the Phenomena of the general Trade Winds ; niche if the whole Surface of the Globe were Sea, would undoubtedly blowall round the World, as they are found to do in the Atlantick and Athiopick Ocean. But feeing fo great Continents dointerpofe and break the Continuity of the Oceans, Regard muft be had to the Nature of the Soil, thefe /7inds are found only near the Equir ial, in thofe Parallels of Latitude, where the diur- nal Motion is fwifteft; but the conftant Calms the in the Atlantickh Sea near the Equa Weiterly inds near the Coait of Guiney, and the periodical Weterly Monjoons, under the EUquator of the Indian Sea, feemingly declare e Infufficiency of that Hypothefis. Befides, the Air being kept to anteEarth by Timeac the Principle of’ Gravity, would pee the fame Degree of Veloity that the arth’s Surface moves with, as well in r {pect of the diurnal Rotation, as of the Arnfieal about the Sun, which is about thirty Minutes It ne therefore to fubfitute fome other Caufe capable of producing t, not liable to the fame a like conftant Objections, but to the known Properties of the rand Water, and the Laws of the fluid Bodie Such an one is the yn of the Sun’s Beams upon the Air and ifles every Day over the together with the Situation of the adjoin has been done by Doctor ording to the Lawsof S? ; lefS rarefi ly large Quantity thereof flows out of one Place or Region unto another. The Antients made but four Winds, ac laft Number to fay iki middle. Wind, s, fo deiS roundappear much it is in vesiey < and if in thefe fome Serpentine Walks well con- wi and the Pofition of the high Mountains, which are the two principal Caufes of the feveral Variations of the Wind from the former genetal Rule; for if a Country lying ce the Sun, prove to be flat, fandy and low Land, {uch as the Defarts of Libya are ufually reported to be, the Heat occafioned by the Reflection of the Sun’s Beams, and the Retention thereof in the Sand, is incredible to thofe who have not felt it; whereby the Air being exceedingly rarefied, it is neceffary that this and more denfe Air fhould run thicooler therwards to reftore the Equilibrium. This is fuppos’d to be the Caufe why, near the Coaft of Guiney, the Wind always fets in the Land, blowing Wefterly inftead of upon Eafterly ; there being fu ficient Reafon to believe that the Inland Parts of Africa are pro digioufly hot, fince the Northern Borders thereof were fo intempe ag to give the Antients oti to conclude, * that all beyond the Tropicks was uninhabitable by Excefs of Heat. From the fame Caufe happens, that there are fo conftant Calms in that Part of the ; for this Tract being Ocean called the R in the Middle, between the Wefterly Sitoit, is with him carried Senleat ntly the Tend the lower Air is Eafterly 7 efs’d upon all the Parts impel on he next R - the Motion as was blowing on the Coatt of Guiney, and inds blowing ‘to the Fafterly Trad of the Air Ten | and fo ftands in nd the Weight of fi being dimintfhed ! the incut hence, not the fall in ry Winds blowi 4] by the © the is copious f afon Va 1 holds the Air here that rit receives, but lets it But |