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West and North-west Winds of New-England. 309 
er, runs from Cape Florida to Newfoundland, with a grad- 
ual divergency from the shore. The ar over the oc 
and peculiarly over the gulf stream, will naturally 
being warmer, and therefore lighter, than that, ” 
land. That over the and, will 
sily soul that ried west taf course blow, ales across 
a considerable division of the Pacific Ocean. The conse- 
quence of these facts would be, that they would come to 
the Eastern shore, fraught with whatever degree of cold 
was accumulated by the atmosphere, over the région which 
lay in their progress. A farther consequence would be, 
that whatever warmth they acquired on the Pacific Ocean, 
they would communicate first to the countries along the 
Western shore ; and then, in speedy succession, to all the 
countries between that and the Eastern. A third conse- 
quence would be, that ‘he would be moist and chilly ; 
and a fourth, that those, hee blew from the North-West 
and North, would be colder than those, which blew from 
the West. But none of these facts, unless perhaps the 
first, actually one place. These winds are all uncom- 
nl d e, which blow from the West, are colder 
than any eee aa the warmth, which Sai could not 
fail to acquire Sank the Pacific esas isn 
ced on the Eastern coast. As these winds frequently blow 
in the winter from thirty to forty, and sometimes to fifty 
miles in an hour ; they would pass over this continent, in 
the latitude of New-England, where it is about ae miles 
Wide in two, three, and fourdays. In this period, especially 
When twice or thrice repeated, the warmth could wet fail to 
be perceived. But in the year 1780 the wind blew from the 
est more than six weeks, without any intermission ; and_ 
during the whole of this time was so cold, that the snow 
did not dissolve ce Heed to give drops from the southern: 
eaves of houses. In 1791 a west wind began to blow on 
the 10th of November, and continued to blow till the 11th _ 
of January ; the weather during the whole time bein ing in- 
tensely cold for the season; and the frost being uninter- 
