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Caleb Aiwater on the Winds of the West. 285 
three degrees of latitude, and 100 feet greater elevation pro- 
duce three weeks difference in the seasons? Is there that dif- 
ference between Baltimore in Maryland, and Wilkesbarre in 
Pennsylvania? Is there that difference between New-York and 
Fort Edward on the Hudson? It is believed that there is not 
one half that difference. 
Ihave referred but little to thermometers, because they are 
kept in so many different situations by their owners, that I 
have known no less than 8 degrees of difference between sev- 
eral of them kept in one town, within almost a stone’s throw of 
each other, at one and the same moment of time. 
Every allowance being made for other causes, I am still of 
the opinion that the difference in the climates of the Ohio and 
regions of country, is to be attributed chiefly to the pre-— 
valence of different currents of air. ‘The southern current 
tarely, if ever, reaches the northern lakes, and the northern, 
until lately, never reached the Gulf of Mexico. But as the 
country is cleared of its native forests, we may reasonably con- 
elude this cold current of air will prevail mure and more, until 
we shall have snow enough for sleighs, at least two months in 
every winter; the summers will be shorter, the extremes of 
heat and cold wilt be greater than at present, and those clouds 
Which formerly obscured the sun almost continually during the 
summer months, will be chased away, and with them the pale 
cheek, the sallow hue, the oppression at the breast, and the 
difficulty of respiration, the headache, and the thousand ills 
which Many of the first emigrants have experienced in our 
climate. We shall probably then have fewer diseases, and more 
‘cute ones. The storms will probably be fewer, more severe, 
and not Continue as long as at present. There are still other 
Views which might be taken on this subject, but they are left to 
tbler pens and future observations. ; 
Thus I haye endeavored to give my opinion on a subject 
= Some interest-to the present, as well as future generations ; 
" doing which, I have not sought for flowers which might have 
been gathered by stepping out of my path, but the fruit rather 
of my own observation and experience; | have not wandered 
