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[[Image: drawing depicting wind movement across  a body of water bouncing of hills/mountains.  Top shore of lake along the hills is labeled A B; bottom shore labeled C D.  There are two arays of winds: E F up and to left bouncing of hill at F, and descending down and to the left M N G.  The other wind flowing from L up and to the left bouncing of hill at H, and descending down to I]]

The same thing happens at ye point of Ambleteuse near to Calais where ye South Southwest blows about three quarters of ye year, because that ye costs of England, and that of France wch are opposite in that place have that direction, and at 10 leagues from thence it may make a wind at South East or north.

I caused to be made some observations near to Verrerie of cherbourg, wch wch have made me know that there reigns but to opposite winds wch succeed one another alternatively, to wit north East and South west this happens from the same cause the direction of some mountains.

Mr Varin who hath made observations in ye Ile of Gorree near cape verd assured me that the north west wind reigneth there oftentimes instead of the eastwinds; this proceeds from hence that there is high mountains at a league distance from that Ile at ye north west side wch reflect towards it ye Alizez winds east or south east, and make them perceived there as a north west when ye same Alizez winds are felt at ye same time at ten leauges beyond that Ile in full sea. I have also learnt by many relations, that when vessels pass along the cost of Genes where there is very high mountains, where of some have between them long vallies, wch have their direction towards the sea, there is felt a considerable wind wch comes from the land toward the vessel when they are over against some one of those vallies.

I have known also great diversity of winds in the same time by the observations made at varsovie in Pologne by Mr Desnoyers, and at Abordan in Ecosse by Mr Gregori, comparing them with this wch I have made at Paris at ye same time; for oftentimes ye winds there are different from those of Paris the eight part of the compass; [[strikethrough]] from those of Paris ye eight part [[/strikethrough]] as if the wind is South west at Paris it will be west at Aberdom. Ye winds are some times opposite at Paris and Varsovie, the wind being one day south-west at Paris it was northeast at Varsovie, these towns are situated almost west southwest and east northeast in respect one of another, whence it follows that these winds would almost directly incounter in some place of Allemagne  near that of Pologne or that of France. I have also remarqued that opposition of winds in ye same place in travelling, by ye means of much snow wch was pushed in the space of a league by a South East, and that in the 3 or 4 following leagues, the snow had been pushed by a north west, this I might easily know by ye stalks and gross branches of trees wch had no snow but on that side ye wind had come

I have remarked ye like effect by ye observations made at ye same time at Paris, at Loches and at Mont Morson in yenne; for a south southwest having reigned three days in these three places wch one in ye direction near to south southwest on north northeast, there was made a north northeast at Paris, ye south southwest yet reigned at Loches and at mont marson:  ye next day the north north east was at Loches and at Paris, and ye 

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed was not sure if [[ye/yr]] was 'the' or 'your' but I transcribed as 'the'. I also assumed [[wch]] meant 'which' but left it as spelled [[wch]]. mandc: "Ye' should be transcribed as "ye." It means "the" in Middle English. No need to retranslate. I have added image description. "Alizez" is French for Trade Winds. Varsovie is Warsaw. "Pologne" = Poland. "Abordan in Ecosse" = Aberdeen in Scotland.