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léfs they fpeedily reach thé open antheir health is endarigeied. Thefê
ïain-clouds' are like fpunge's fwelled with water, and on any pief-
furé, of when driven againft the mountains, difcharge their WSteïi
iti heavy ftóns,- and caufè that GöMftaftt hurnidity #v On*this -ftp-
cöuiit, iiidèëd, Bergen is flof fö: ple&fant■ tb SSl fevefalóthef
|feëês ih NörWay arfe 5 and the wotoen, who feldöin have thë üfe
öf coaches,- are .in alTWeatlièrs obliged to wêafta Wöëllènfobftlken
black- veil over their heads, wMlftthfemfinTfeeUrethemfelves front
the rain by raim-hats, made like u^abtellas.
" ‘ s t . xm .
one bf my chief views in this work isy according to my
m fhallbw knowledge dnd 'infight into -'the hdmtonyl of ^things, to
iktw that aR the yvorics-cTr’God fiill'of loving. kihflnefsvfJ
fiibft héte ebferve that thé iboifl: and rainy Weather, whieh’.p1®-
vails all over the weftern coaft of Nc^ay,; -bat? chiefly about
Bergen,} it excellently adapted to the.heGeflifies of vthefobuntry,
and in feveral 'relpeéts contributes' to its welfare. Firft, 'ittëêE
^tót bmefit to Sië cotmttyman in his corn and hay-harveftydor
the thin furfacfc of earth on the high rocky mountains, which
line the weftern coaft, requires a greait dèd-of'-modlum^othefi
wife- it5 Would ftót yield even grail, and -muchdefs wotrid it
pïödufcé Coin j it Would literally anfwer tb; thé'paraMë, of the
fed, ibhkh féli on a rock- and ’withered dmdy-^^ëchuje- 'it lacked
* Edward Dapper,- imhis voyage to Africa, page 56-7585 thus accounts for the
heavy rains in Ethiopia, .which caufe the °fsiftp/us:'inundations; :c? the tun-
■ beam s,. fayshe, .exhale the ^vapours.;. afterwards the .MSMfe^air, which is cold, - and
adheres to the cold iummitSoftRe mountains; diffipates :the clouds which the north-
w'ind has aggregated, or difcharges them in rain.” What this writer attribatcs folely
to the north-wind,- profeUdr Kraft, on. better .grounds,- judges tó be an effeft of.irhat
aetfadion 'which is möft' aiMhibte^bdjigftmountains, fcut in fdme meafure- affedts
the whole globe, which revolvingflike a.wlieel, has an attraftive. .power : Tlis words
are thefe, “ I have often obferved in fair weather the high mountains £0 be covered
with a thick cloud, as fóon as there is the lealt hazinefs in the .air, and from
it is that'in mountainous countries, the rains are hep more gegueffiand more vioT
lent than in a champain c.ountij.” -'The fingie.caufe-of tliis, isfthe attraffipno'fthé
mountains, for the attraftive powhi; óf large mountains, may in. fome mSafure be
proportionate to ‘ the, attraftive power o fflie earth; dfeiefole wlf|fneyhei ofthefei
attradions are impeded in their operations,.?;®id the propopon is adjufted, the di-
redion in which a particle .floating in the air! moves towards, the póuntain' may be
rlptprm'inpd. This is proved from the ingenious obfervatióii 1 made by Meff. BouT
eex andrhe la Condamïnè, bn ;a mountain called CnimborafO, in -P?ru, wh<?p
plummet was by-the imounifain drawn alide ;ftÓm, .ks pdpéndjchl-ai;. pré.ffipn. The
lprings found on the tops. of-mounf |ifis are, produced by this ptraftion; and as many
parti'cles of inatte-r^as are feen in comiedion, ïo ,there ox tnis atƒ
jcraéfcivè' power. Refections on the ’Newtonian and CarteTian Syitems, by prorèlior
’ Krtft,' in Aétis Soc. Hafnienf. T im, l l i l l i l » .. • M e
j. . - ' ' ■ moijture
mdfium. 3/hüsTbelè' (Mficiefldes, -in Tefpdft fo vegfetafibhj|are flip-
plied -by. 'the araân,:whkh.!®fttiOTMly r&è-'-iîMé ‘èkffli-
We feave. indeed,'in fnèifl:traces, the faih Wbùîd not-bfe fuffloferit'
without Itfle laa^esjefpfnbw d i îêh^ tbps ibf/khfe - moümairis, Or
whôtTi^.àare^ndng, the many .pieces of fla'fiding-water oflr
tkdr,Bidge6r, whieh- ifolneten.es ?by 'flibteikafrtebus Oô'fings-, te'ë-^
time^îlly^çiîfleRreams, dhoropgbfy wafe-th'e earth, and-aferd a
Gonflant /ftfçefhment to the ^parched fldés «Lithe Mo&Mai^.
Whereas in «bhe^-ale^f Guldbrarad, and '® A ef pa-ris Mère thé'
raifes ate-»hqt |fo ,»nd itke. ,iino®iaraihs- - ;ri0t ïb flfêep W
thick Tétras here, the water is cotai»eytd M b tfe é ’-feld^ By treriefT^,
^ d .tkrbwn i^x>n the cdMvasted greeted with
tiflid in Berfla, and other hot icoialntsîes» A feôfid b’eftéât’of ’thi*
ÿdt and rainy weàflïer, èfpeekily when e^m withàlp aîftf gldefly
in fpring, ii|p that it gives flflberhsrn the.'sdvMtage kïgé^
draughts j for in cldar and open weather th^jheffil^s, %ates,
Whicllî ^ ^ 2 I eaT kerCi ^ ‘toThframdutit-
' ôf many tuns of gold, are id Tehtncing imW iy «
(bQ|p;f.and into the bays, but in raiâyd-hazÿ ^fveaftera the flfher-
, men meet with numbarldfs of thèm. :
S e c t . x i v .
• In the preceding articles,-I have-flièwn the diverfitiès bf .the nor^
in reiPe<a t0 cold and beat, floft and thaWs, both in
Which are eTuibiftant from the! line, and H tfe
eafl 'and wéft parts of the country, and' iir refpéâ
Fflefeld. ufuaüy makes a-very! reifoarhabk' (®fl-
fej-ejice betwixt us and our neareft eaftern neighbours, in the pro-
Yince infomuch.that whenrit is,fodkwe&thef with then^
-wifli us it is fair, and fo vice véffe. The eoftrfe of the' air, when
impelled againfl the highefr mountains, k cheekbd, for h feldofo
afcends fo pafs over them. Of this I War an' e>-witndl m mf H i H
r^urn fmmGhrifoania «v ï 7^ - .when Mveffifag on the
ci June over the hig^efl part of- thofd mbwatainst, I <éfe^edl£
% f . : r?LU1"douds han^ a g ^ ;%Kers, wBîofr vfc^ fed
^ad beeib E l %^feY fM iiy s T ypon H hill
we had- a little fleet, • bur ifi- fée vâîîeÿ of Laefoale,. ’ where
we amved at our defeent- froffî-the mcMhMd-, S R | M
Part I. t \tr, • • warm