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O/Eqfterly Winds. 



During the winter months there feems to be a frequent 

 ftruggle and conteft betwixt the air incumbent over the Afiatic 

 continent, and J:hat incumbent on the North American, lying 

 betwixt the above-mentioned parallels and bordering on the 

 Pacific ocean, which of them fliall rule over it. 



The mafs of the American air being lefs confiderable, and 

 its efforts divided between the Pacific and the Atlantic, is gene- 

 rally obliged to yield to its antagonift ; though fometimes the 

 Afiatic being warmed, either by a diffufion of the fuperior 

 current or by foutherly winds, the colder American becomes 

 more forcible. In fummer this muft happen frequently, the 

 E N. E. ofteneft prevailing ; upon the whole however Leche 

 remarked that the E. and E.S.E. were nearly the moft uncom- 

 mon ; as did La Cotte in the climate of Paris. Meteorolog. 



P- 3°5- ■ , 



With vis this vvind is moft frequent in the months of April 



and May ; and I have obferved in Cook's Journal, tables 9th, 



loth and nth, that it prevails alfo in the fame months in 



the Pacific, therefore the colder continental air then pours 



in upon us. 



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