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would naturally take, the north-eaft. and’ fouth-, 
weft winds will be moft frequent; as is the 
cafe at Dover, Lancafter, Kendal, &c. At 
Liverpool, however, a remarkable deviation 
takes place. From the tables here given it ap- 
pears, that the wind blows much more fre-: 
quently from the fouth-eaft than from any other 
point ; and on comparing it with the winds at 
Dover, in the table here given, with the winds 
at Lancafter, p. 265 of this volume, and thofe 
of Kendal in Mr. Dalton’s Effays, it appears, 
that both the fouth-weft and the north-eaft 
winds at Liverpool are deficient. As this takes 
place conftantly every year, it can only be 
accounted for on the fuppofition of fome per- 
manent local caufe. It probably depends upon 
an atmofpheric eddy, produced by the fouth- 
weft winds ftriking obliquely againft the Englith 
appenine, and being hence converted into 
fouth-eaft winds. The fame will happen, in 
fome degree, to the north-eaft winds. This 
eddy is probably fimilar to that, which caufes 
the frequent north-weft winds on the eaftern 
coaft of North America. Thefe are the freezing 
winds, asappears from a variety of teftimonies, 
and are evidently produced by an atmofpheric 
eddy : for when a fheet of air is flowing from the . 
north-eaft, and rifing from the fhore in a 
ftraight line to the fummit of the Apalachian 
mountains, 
