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256 Mr. Redfield’s Second Reply to Dr. Hare. 
this time to be held in more favor by Dr. H. than by myself. In 
yar. 51, with characteristic fairness, he has joined a passage from 
the same paper to another from a subsequent paper, and has ad- 
duced it, with a formal reference, as a continuous quotation from 
the latter. I see little advantage, however, that he can derive 
from it: The ‘“unresisted rotation” refers to the seeming non- 
resistance of the air to a mass turning on its own axis: And did 
he never know the rotative velocity of a moving body to “be- 
come accelerated” by the oblique “resistances” of other bodies 
with which it came in contact ? . 
In par. 53-56 my opponent labors to convict me of inconsis- 
tencies in various passages which he has culled from my reply to 
Mr. Espy in the “ Franklin Journal ;”’—as if any inconsistencies 
of mine could disprove the rotative and progressive character of 
storms. The alleged inconsistencies result only from his con- 
founding cases which I view as distinct, and from some inacct- 
racies in the choice of terms.—T'his labor is also continued on a 
collection of passages on the barometer. [57-61.] Had our ob- 
jector given as much attention to the operations of nature in the 
open air, as he has to the phenomena exhibited in the laboratory, 
he could not by any possibility have fallen into the error which 
is exhibited in these paragraphs. It is singular‘enough that @ 
critic who has detected so much of what he has pleased to fancy 
inconsistencies and contradictions in my writings, should have 
failed to perceive that the space “around the exterior border” 
might, nay indeed must be something very different from the | 
“first portion” or “last portion of the gale.” Observation has 
shown that most of our winter storms are preceded by @ hig! 
state of the barometer, and. that the beginning of the storm 18 
shewn by the falling of the mercury, which rises when the heart 
of the storm or gale is passed and the wind changes. 
Of inaccurate or fictitious quotation, I am sorry to notice oe 
example in “the reliable facts and observations of our theorists 
{par. 62]—exhibiting a manner of controversy which can in n0 
wise contribute to the advancement of science. Of the quotas 
tion which is here adduced, 1 believe that not more than three 
words can be found together in my writings. oe 
- Inhis criticisms on my statements of the changes of wind 10 
storms; [62-68] Dr. Hare fails to notice the distinction betwee? 
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