VOYAGE OUTWARD. 



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WINDS. 



Having premised so much, in the hope that the matter 

 will not be deemed irrelevant to the main object of the 

 observations, which is the professed aim of the work, parti- 

 cularly as they will aid in elucidating many of the atmo- 

 spheric phenomena hereinafter to be mentioned, I shall 

 proceed very briefly indeed with the Journal. But first 

 in the following short space shall say a word or two about 

 the Orkney Islands. 



The general appearance of those islands is that of low, 

 flat, rounded hills, with the exception of the western side of 

 Hoy and Pomona, which present a bold rocky front of sand- 

 stone to the ocean. The stratification seldom departs from 



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