the Summer Months, and run up to the Northwards of that Latitude, as high as Japan , before they meet with variable Winds, to shape their Course to the Eastwards. And Schooten and others that have gone about by the Magellan Streights, have found the Limits of S. E. Winds, much about the same Latitude to the Southwards; besides a farther Analogy between the Winds of this Ocean, and the Æthiopick , appears in that, upon the Coast of Peru , they are always much Southerly, like as they are found near the Shoars of Angola .
Thus far Matter of Fact, wherein if the information I have receiv'd be not in all parts Accurate, it has not been for want of inquiry from those I conceiv'd best able to instruct me; and I shall take it for a very great Kindness if any Master of a Ship, or other Person, well inform'd of the Nature of the Winds, in any of the aforemention'd parts of the World, shall please to communicate their Observations thereupon; so that what I have here Collected may be either confirm'd or amended, or by the addition of some material Circumstances enlarg'd. It is not the work of one, nor of few, but of a multitude of Observers, to bring together the Experience requisite to compose a perfect and compleat History of these Winds; however I am not much doubtful that I have err'd in, or omitted any of the principal Observables, whatever lesser Particulars may have escaped my Knowledge.
To help the Conception of the Reader in a manner of so much difficulty, I believ'd it necessary to adjoin a Scheme, (Plate 2.) shewing at one view all the various Tracts and Courses of these Winds; whereby 'tis possible the thing may be better understood, than by any verbal Description whatsoever.
The Limits of these several Tracts are design'd every where by prickt Lines, as well in the Atlantick and Æthiopick, where they are the boundaries of the Trade and variable Winds, as