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This Plate brings out the fact that, as a rule, rains and calms go 

 together in the tropics ; but beyond, rains and gales are more apt 

 to occur at the same time, or to follow each other. With regard 

 to the disturbing agents which are let loose from Cape Horn and 

 the Gulf Stream upon the atmosphere, I beg leave to quote a re- 

 mark of Jansen's : 



958. "In contemplating Nature in her universal aspect, in which 

 all is so perfectly ordered that all the parts with mutual kindness 

 support each other by the complaisant interposition of air and wa- 

 ter, we can not possibly reject the idea of unanimity of action, and 

 we may conjecture that w^hen impeded or prevented by external 

 local causes, their bond of union is broken, then are observed the 

 terrible efforts of Nature by which its Almighty power is shown 

 in combating that disturbance of which we know so little, and in 

 renewing and perfecting those broken bonds. Forces which are 

 otherwise working beyond the reach of human vision, then come 

 forth in the combat for the restoration of the disturbed equilibri- 

 um. They cause the earth to tremble to her centre, and man to 

 stand anxious and dismayed. Yet Omniscience watches, a Prov- 

 idence cares, and the Almighty is love. The delightful land that 

 is given us as a dwelling-place, is at the same time the cause of 

 all the disturbances in the air and in the ocean, whence the hurri- 

 canes and the "rivers in the sea" arise, which in turn are for the 

 universal good ; where they are not found, we may be certain that 

 the currents of the air and of the water work undisturbed, harmo- 

 niously together. And is not this the case in the southeast trade- 

 v/ind of the South Atlantic Ocean ?" 



