length of route; local duration; direction of the winds not the direction of progress, 115;
local directions and change of wind, 115, 116;
rotative motion from right to left in the northern hemisphere; effect on the barometer, 117;
oscillation of the axis of rotation, 118;
Barbadoes hurricane of August, 1831, 119;
practical deductions for navigators, 119, 120;
storms of the China Sea similar to those of the West Indies, 121;
gyration in the southern hemisphere opposite to that in the northern, 121.
—, facts in meteorology, xxv, 122;
–general view of the atmosphere and its currents, 123;