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that ye air growing cold from all parts in ye circumference, by ye absence of ye sun, there ought to come a reflux of air.  This flux and reflux of air may be seen also in little.  Mr Huggins told me one day that he had observed that his chambers being well shut, his Barometer wch was of that sort wch depress their liquor by ye greater weight of ye air, and whereof ye changes of hight are very sensable, was depressed and raised alternately many times in a quarter of an hour.  I attribute ye cause to some wind which was curbed in ye chamber chimny, wch haveing there pressed ye air, it had given a greater spring wch had made ye liquor in ye Barometer to descend, and that condensed air having afterwards by ye cessation of ye cause ye liberty to be extended, might repass thrô ye chimny, and its spring being diminished ye liquor of ye Barometer might remount; and because that ye motion acquired by ye air wch remounted thrô ye chimny might be more than to cause an equilibrium, it might cause a new descent of ye air thrô ye same passage, wch might again put ye condensation of ye air in ye chamber beyond an equilibrium and might make ye liquor in ye Barometer to descend, and so on, diminishing by little and little till to an intire reduction to an equilibrium.

I saw a like effect in a furnace made of lime, it was like to a small vaulted chamber, where it had in ye middle a square window of a foot and a half wide, by wich ye wood might be cast in to maintain ye fire.  It happened that fire being great, ye inclosed air did extramely dilate it self, and that it went out in part thrô ye window with much swiftness, and ye fire being then diminished by ye defect of air, ye heat of ye inclosed air diminished, and becomming by consequence lese rarified, it returned thither necessarily thro ye window in ye form of wind wch blowed ye fire and again kindle it, wch did anew dilate ye air by an augmentation of heat, and made it again go out thrô ye window.  This change made a kind of respiration like to that of animals; these wch did this work told me that something happened in all their lime furnaces, and they made me observe that ye butterflyes and other animals, wch fly in ye night towards ye light of fire; being a foot or two from ye air wch reentered [["en" was inserted]] with great swiftness after it had been gone out.  The time of this respiration was three or four times a long as that of ye respiration of animals.

I have observed by many observations at Paris and in ye neighbourhood, ye winds made in 15 days almost an entire revolution, blowing sucessively from all parts of ye Horizon, and that at new and full moon ye wind is almost always north and north-east. That is to say that if there is a north wind at ye new moon, it passeth to ye east in three or four days and afterwards to ye south, and then to ye west, and returns to ye north about ye full moon, whence it repasseth towards ye east, ye south, and ye west and returns at ye new moon to ye north or north-east.  Some of ye winds turn sometimes almost back as from ye west to southwest, and from north east to north, and then these winds last 7 or 8 days: but they almost never make a whole turn. It happens also sometimes that ye wind passeth from ye west to north-east and from ye east to south west without ye intermediate winds being remarkable.

These revolutions of ye winds may be explained by the third principall cause in ye manner following.

It is very probable that ye moon rising at its apogeum ought to draw much of ye air after it, if it is supposed that it swims in ye air, and that its diameter may be 5 or 600 leagues, as astronomers assert; for riseing it ought to draw along ye air wch is next it, that air wch is under it, even to ye countrys under ye torid zone; and for that reason ye air wch is near ye poles on both sides ought to run [[strikethrough]] of its spring, [[/strikethrough]] thither to preserve ye equilibrium of its spring, wch ought to produce ye north towards ye middle of ye north temperate zone, which joyned with ye east wind wch is produced by ye first cause to wit, by ye motion of ye earth, composeth ye north east wch reigns at Paris ordinarily in ye new  moons.

There ought to be made moreover a small north wind by ye great motion of ye air drawn along by ye earth, from the equinoxigal line to ye 5 or 60 degree.  I have experimented that turning swiftly a bead ball of 2 inches diameter near to a pail full of water what was at ye bottom of ye water would be elevated towards ye ball with small leaps, and having hanged a ball of 8 inches diameter, and made it turn moderately swift, it made a great motion of ye air at ye side, and another lesser at ye bottom [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[/strikethrough]] and top towards ye pole of the ball;  I [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]]

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Reviewed I painstakingly transcribed this whole page, then lost it when I was done (even though I had "saved" it at intervals)- got a message saying the page was out of date, or something??? How can I prevent this in the future? Dale mandc: this used to happen to me. Any more I copy what I have done to clipboard before trying to save or complete. That way if you get the hated "out of date" message you can paste what you saved after reloading the page. This ms takes hours sometimes on a single page. The translator uses the word "spring" sometimes in the sense of a force, weight, strength or power. 2nd review: - Torrid zone: between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn -- compared "carrys" double "r" on page 19 and it does not match "torrid" so I changed to single "r" - Minor edits to align words to match verbatim spelling. Bravo for being able to decipher this script!