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Mean Height of the Barometer. 



* Maandelijksche Zeibaanwijzingen van Java naar Het Kanaal. Als Uitkomstea Wetenschap en 

 Ervaring Aaugaande Winden en Zeestroomingen in Sommige Gedeetten Van Den Oceaau Uitgegenen 

 Door Heet Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologische Institut. Utrecht, 1859. 



t Tlie mean height of the barometer for England generally is 29.94-. — Atlmiral Fitzroy. 



craising in the Pacific more than a quarter of a century ago. 

 To ascertain whether these " harometric cmomalies,'' as they are 

 called, are pecuhar to the regions about Cape Horn, or whether 

 they are common to high southern latitudes in all longitudes, the 

 observations about Cape Horn were arranged in one group ; those 

 between 20^ W. and 140^ E. in another ; and those between 140° 

 E. and 80° W. in another, mth the following results : — (They are 

 all on the polar side of lat. 40° S.) 



