On the Land Winds of Coromandel, &c, 243 



It will, however, be best to make observations as often as 

 possible both on the one and the other, as it has been as- 

 certained, both by Mr. Cavendish and the late Dr. Hunter, 

 that the temperature of the waters at any given place is a 

 most accurate measure of its mean heat ; a determination 

 of which is not only an object of considerable curiosity in 

 itself, but of very great consequence in an agricultural point 

 of view. 



The annexed form for registering the observations scarcely 

 requires an explanation. The first column is for number- 

 ing the observations, which extremely facilitates the re- 

 ference to them. The succeeding columns are fully ex- 

 plained by their titles. The last, called Results, is added, 

 in order that those persons who choose it may place in one 

 view the observations, and the altitudes deduced from them. 

 Printed sheets in this form, ready for use, may be had of 

 Mr. Jones. The back of each page is left blank, for the 

 convenience of inserting any other notes or observations. 

 I am, sir, 



Your humble servant, 



H. C. Englefield. 



XLVII. On the Land Winds of Corom.andel, and their 

 Causes. By William Roxburgh, M.D.* 



JL he land winds on the coast of Coromandel are those 

 hot winds which blow at a particular season of the year, 

 and hour of the day, from the western hills, commonly 

 called the Ghauts, towards the Bay of Bengal. In the 

 more inland countries, as above the Ghauts, "they are not 



* From Transactions of the Medical Society vf London, Vbl. i. part I. just 

 published. 



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