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THE ATMOSPIIEEE AND METEOEOLOGY. 



Chinese sea owe their origin to similar causes ; in this case they would 

 be nothing else than deviating monsoons, transformed into hurricanes, 





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Fig. 117.— Direction of Cyclones on the surface of the earth. 



because of the obstacles opposed to them by the mountains of the 

 Philippines and Formosa. Besides all these hilly countries of differ- 

 ent sizes and forms, which are scattered over that part of the Pacific 



