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368 On Storms and Meteorological Observations. 
self the task of comparing, with this object in view, the meteorological 
_ tables of any one year. Ishould not propose to myself to furnish the 
public with particular and detailed remarks upon all the observations, . 
but simply to give an account of whatever interesting facts were to be 
discovered in my three hundred and sixty five particular maps. I 
fear th at these ideas, which will perhaps appear to have been made 
a oa waiting however for some result of this sort, I am about to et a 
umber of papers on the subject of meteorology, which I es 
_ able 0 arrange and publish in the course of the ensuing year.’ Along 
- with some fragments of my own, I propose to give a translati tion, 
, of an in English work, entitled aa on | Atmospherie ; 
nomena, by Thomas Forster.” 
re Tt would be difficult in this country to soca cooperation of as. 
: anum nares observers, as were required. by Professor Brandes 
for carrying his plans into execution. But the comparison of a much 
smaller number of meteorological registers, exhibiting the course of 
the winds, the aspect of the heavens, and the quantity of rain or 
snow, would. afford valuable information, especially respecting the 
more remarkable phenomena. Such a comparison would have 
shown, during the last fall, that violent north east storms may sweep 
over the northern and eastern states, without making themselves felt 
in the Carolinas. We meet from time to time, in’ l 
‘elsewhere, with enquiries respecting the “Indian summer 0 
the dry fog that covers this countr y in autumn, and sometimes in the 
spring. A very few observations in remote parts of the United States, 
continued through a single year, would be worth more than a consid- 
speculations upon the — They would determine 
er the « opi some philosophers who represent 
the combustion of the prairies and 
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a a} ‘be — that is not understood, and is simi- 
‘which accompanies the Harmattan on the coast of Guinea. 
wing quotations have reference to this subject. 
z several of the summer months of the year 1783, when 
ets of the sun’s rays. to heat the earth in these northern re- 
gions si shou Id have een the greatest, there existed a constant fog over 
‘ all. Europe and- eat’ part of North America. ‘This fog was of a 
permanent nature; it was dry, and the rays of the sun seemed to 
have little effect towards dissipating it, as they easily do a moist fog 
arising from water. they were indeed rendered so faint in passing 
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