the Earth would leave the Moon behind it, and she become another Primary Planet.
An Historical Account of the Trade Winds and Monsoons , observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks , with an attempt to assign the Physical Cause of the said Winds, by Mr. Ed. Halley .
AN exact Relation of the constant and periodical Winds, observable in several Tracts of the Ocean, is a part of Natural History not less desireable and useful, than it is difficult to obtain, and its Phænomena hard to explicate: I am not ignorant that several Writers have undertaken this Subject, and although Varenius (Lib. 1. Chap. 21. Geo. Gen.) seems to have endeavour'd after the best information from Voyagers, yet cannot his Accounts be admitted for accurate, by those that shall attentively consider and compare them together, and some of them are most evident Mistakes; which, as near as I can, I shall attempt to rectify, having had the opportunity of conversing with Navigators, acquainted with all parts of India, and having liv'd a considerable time between the Tropicks, and there made my own Remarks.
The Substance of what I have collected is briefly as follows.
The Universal Ocean may most