like constant Effect, not liable to the same Objections, but agreeable to the known Properties of the Elements of Air and Water, and the Laws of the Motion of fluid Bodies. Such an one is, I conceive, the Action of the Sun Beams upon the Air and Water, as he passes every Day over the Oceans, consider'd together with the Nature of the Soil, and Situation of the adjoining Continents: I say therefore, first, that according to the Laws of Staticks, the Air which is less rarified or expanded by heat, and consequently more ponderous, must have a Motion towards those parts thereof, which are more rarified, and less ponderous, to bring it to an Æquilibrium; and secondly, That the Presence of the Sun continually shifting to the Westwards, that part towards which the Air tends, by reason of the Rarifaction made by his greatest Meridian Heat, is with him carried Westward, and consequently the tendency of the whole Body of the lower Air is that way.
Thus a general Easterly Wind is formed, which being impressed upon all the Air of a vast Ocean, the Parts impel one the other, and so keep moving till the next return of the Sun,
whereby so much of the Motion as was lost, is again restored, and thus the Westerly Wind is made perpetual.
From the same Principle it follows, that this Easterly Wind should on the North side of the Æquator, be to the Northwards of the East, and in South Latitudes to the Southwards thereof; for near the Line, the Air is much more rarified, than at a greater distance from it; because of the Sun twice in a Year Vertical, and at no time distant above 23 Degr. and a half; at which distance the Heat, being as the Sine of the Angle of Incidence, is but little short of that of the perpendicular Ray. Whereas under the Tropicks, though the Sun stay long Vertical, yet he is as long 47 Degr. off; which is a kind of