As to those furious Storms call'd _Hurricanes_, which are, as it were, peculiar to the _Caribbee_ Isles; and which so dreadfully afflict them in the Month of _August_, or not much before or after, they do not so properly belong to this place, both by Reason of their small continuance and extent, as likewise because they are not Anniversary, some Years having more than one, and sometimes for several Years together there being none at all. But their Violence is so unconceivable, and their other _Phænomena_ so surprising, that they merit well to be consider'd apart. What is here said, is to be understood of the Sea Winds at some distance from the Land; for upon and near the Shoars, the Land and Sea Breezes are almost every where sensible; and the great Variety which happens in their Periods, Force and Direction, from the situation of the Mountains, Vallies and Woods, and from the various Texture of the Soil, more or less capable of retaining and reflecting Heat, and of exhaling or condensing Vapours, is such, that it were an endless task, to endeavour to account for them. II. In the _Indian_ Ocean, the Winds are partly general, as in the _Æthiopick_ Ocean, partly Periodical; that is, half the Year they blow one way, and the other half near upon the opposite Points; and these Points and Times of shifting are different in different parts of this Ocean; the limits of each Tract of Sea, subject to the same Change or _Monsoon_, are certainly very hard to determine, but the diligence I have used to be rightly inform'd, and the care I have taken therein, has, in a great measure, surmounted that Difficulty; and I am perswaded that the following Particulars may be relied upon. 1. That between the Latitudes of ten Degrees and thirty Degrees South, between _Madagascar_ and _Hollandia Nova_, the general Trade Wind about the S. E. by E. is found to blow all the Year long, to all Intents and Purposes after the same manner as in the same Latitudes in the _Æthiopick_ Ocean, as it is describ'd in the fourth _Remark_ aforegoing. 2. That the aforesaid S. E. Winds extend to within two Degrees of the _Æquator_, during the Months of _June_, _July_, _August_, &c. to _November_; at which time between the _South Latitudes_ of three and ten Degrees, being near the Meridian of the North end of _Madagascar_, and between two and twelve South Latitude, being near _Sumatra_ and _Java_, the contrary Winds from the N. W. or between the North and West, set in and blow for half the Year, _viz._ from the beginning of _December_ till _May_; and this _Monsoon_ is observ'd as far as the _Molucca_ Isles, of which more anon.