“There are… many… names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.”

—  Vitruvius , book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 10

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