ARGESTES, is used by Vitruvius for the wind which blows from that quarter of the horizon, which is 75° from the south and westward. Ricciolus uses the term to denote the wind which blows at 22° 30' from the west towards the north, coinciding with that which is otherwise called west north-west.
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