utmoft precaution a vefïét is foddenly loft in the fecùrity of fine
arid' calm weather; for thefe blafts ifluing in a narrow and violent
current from the clefts of the mountains, or from the vallies, behind
a cape, or nom the points of the high mountains, and being
violently impelled^ againft an oppofite mountain, this reverberation
eaufes a kind of hurricane in the air, which, for a time, may
déprive-the Unwary of his fight *.
Hurricanes But the. real- hurricanes, or whirlwinds, which arife, though
Swfchirl fcldom on the open fea, are known to be; extremely dangerous to:
fhips, by their hidden and rapid vortex, which throws the fea
at a fhaalfi diftance into fuch an agitation,, that the water in drops
flies up into the air like ftnoke. The common people, from an*
cdd fuperffition,-call them Ganfkud, conceiting; that , a necromancer,
of Fin-lapland,. has then fent out his Ganfly,, as they
call' it, to-do mifchief * but the true caufe of the hurricane, is the-
fudden explofion of a wind.confined and agitated in a thick cloud,.-
which being impetuouily difcharged upon the water, the fiirfaee
is feparated, and riles up into the air like duft or fmoke, and
hence* amongft us, this hurricane is very properly called Roeg-
flage, i. e. fmoke-fqbalT.
I ftiall take this occafion to mention another wonderful phenomenon
of the air, which likewife proceeds from denfe,,and vfo-
lently agitated clouds, not as any thing new and unknown in the
warm climates, but as being, however, fomewhat rare, and by
experience very well known in the north-. I mean the water-*
Water-fpoHt. fpout, or Trompe de mer, of which a credible perfon, who fpent
his younger years arfea, gave me the-fiallowing. account $ that on
the wide fea, betwixt Shetland and Norway, he and his crew, to
their great aftonifhment, obferved, in clear weather, and an eafy
breeze, a cloud gradually defcending towards the water, and in
the lhape of a funnel, or rather a fpiral fnail-fhell, attrading from
the furface of the fea a column of water of a confidefable diame-
meter ; and this fudion continued all the time they Were in fight.
Some hours after came on a very violent rain, which, unqueftion->
* Whether it be pofiible that a man and horfe may be carried forward by fuch a
whirlwind, and driven back-by another ftronger wind meeting him, without anji
damage to either man or horfe, muft reft upon the authority of a very credible
writer, Mr. Lucas Debes, in his 'Defcription of the Ifland Fato, p. 97.
M fa . b ■ ably
ably confi&d of the watery dhlijeh cloud had a little
before easabaled fea^4 •'
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X light, heat, cold, rains, and winds of Rofwhy,? is ho
obfervahle m fpfts' of fhe earth, iq ^ejttxpvTd, fapcL8“ “^
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