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offer a reason, opposite to his of Similar Attraction: which this Observer in his Second Letter thinks not so fair, except the othe instances, he mentioned, had been refuted.
To which 'tis thought there needs no more to be said, to satisfie the observer, than that the Publisher did not at all obtrude another reason of the Effect, there spoken of, but very modestly (as he conceives) and with an expression implying doubt, suggested only his thoughts, which then occurr'd to him; being so unconcern'd herein, that, to shew on this occasion his averseness from disputing, he altogether leaves it to the Reader to judge, whether Similar Attraction, or Pulsion and Weight be the more Philosophical account of the Phænomenon, there discoursed of: In reference to which, this curious Travellor farther observes;
That the Sea-brise comes not into Jamaica till 8 or 9 of the clock in the morning, and ordinarily ceaseth about 4 or 5 at night. Where yet he adds, that he hath known a Sea-brise blow in the Winter-months 14 days and nights together; and that then no Clouds gather, but Dews fall: But if a North-wind blow, (which sometimes in the Winter-months lasts as long) that then no Dew falls, nor Clouds gather. The Clouds (he faith) begin to gather about 2 or 3 of the clock in the afternoon at the Mountains, and do not embody first in the Air, and after settle there, but settle first, and embody there; the tell of the Skie being clear till Sun-set; so that they do not pass near the Earth in a body, and only stop where they meet with parts of the Earth elevated above the rest; but precipitate from a very great height, and in particles of an exceeding rarified nature, so as not to obscure the Air or Sky at all, that great variety of beautiful Colours in the Canopy of Heaven, being raised to a much greater distance than 'tis here.
Next (to do the Observer farther right) he desires that what is said Numb. 27, p. 497. of having fail'd in the Latitude of Barbados for two days, may be read for some days, he having kept no exact Journal, and believing it was more days. And p. 498. he suggests, that for F. Hawkins it should be read Sir Richard Hawkins in his observ. Sect. 12.
Thirdly, he takes, notice, that he could not learn, how the Tor-toises
