1I foreſaw this gheſs to be liable, namely,
That, no heat intervening, there appear'd
nothing that ſhould raiſe the Water into
exhalations and give them an impulſe. I
thought it might be ſaid that motion a
lone, if vehement enough, may, with
out ſenſible heat, ſuffice to break Water
into very minute parts, and make them aſ
cend upwards, if they can no where elſe
more eaſily continue their agitation. For
Iremember, that Travelling betwixt Ly
ons and Geneva, I ſaw, not very far out of
the Way, a place where the River of
Rhone coming ſuddenly to be ſtreighten'd
betwixt two Rocks, ſo near each other,
that a Man may (if my Memory fail me
not) ſtand aſtride upon both at once: that
rapid Stream daſhing with great impetuo
ſity againſt its Rocky Boundaries, does
break part of its Water into ſuch minute
Corpuſcles, and put them into ſuch a mo
tion, that Paſſengers obſerve at a good di
ſtance off, as it were a Miſt ariſing from
that place, and aſcending a good way up
into the Air. Such, I ſay, was my ſuſ
picion touching the Wind we have been
conſidering, but it ſeems ſomething odde
that aqueous Vapors ſhould, like a dry
Wind, paſs through ſo long and tortu-
That, no heat intervening, there appear'd
nothing that ſhould raiſe the Water into
exhalations and give them an impulſe. I
thought it might be ſaid that motion a
lone, if vehement enough, may, with
out ſenſible heat, ſuffice to break Water
into very minute parts, and make them aſ
cend upwards, if they can no where elſe
more eaſily continue their agitation. For
Iremember, that Travelling betwixt Ly
ons and Geneva, I ſaw, not very far out of
the Way, a place where the River of
Rhone coming ſuddenly to be ſtreighten'd
betwixt two Rocks, ſo near each other,
that a Man may (if my Memory fail me
not) ſtand aſtride upon both at once: that
rapid Stream daſhing with great impetuo
ſity againſt its Rocky Boundaries, does
break part of its Water into ſuch minute
Corpuſcles, and put them into ſuch a mo
tion, that Paſſengers obſerve at a good di
ſtance off, as it were a Miſt ariſing from
that place, and aſcending a good way up
into the Air. Such, I ſay, was my ſuſ
picion touching the Wind we have been
conſidering, but it ſeems ſomething odde
that aqueous Vapors ſhould, like a dry
Wind, paſs through ſo long and tortu-