i28 fHE ORIGIN OF CREATION. 



winds, and storms, and it may not be amiss to lay down s6me 

 propositions, which may tend to 'assist those devoted to the 

 study of meteorology, in their predictions of coming weather. 



Sir John Herschell in "Good Words," 1864, has a long 

 article on the subject of " Weather and Weathef prophets," 

 in which he tries to show that the trade winds, and all others, 

 are caused by the sun attracting the vapour from the earth, 

 making a kind of vacuum, towards which the winds rush from 

 all directions. 



Professor Eogers in " Good Words," 1863, also says : " The 

 Wind and every material movement of the atmosphere is prim- 

 arily, as we all know, a consequence of the unequal warming by 

 the sun, of the different latitudes and tracts of the globe's varied 

 surface." This we deny, and believe it is one of those empirical 

 assertions, which are not sustained by facts in nature. That the 

 sUn has an influence in causing winds, we admit, for the heat 

 caused by it locally in certain situations so increases the growth 

 and life action of plants, in swamps for instance, that vast 

 quantities of vegetable gases are released, and by coming in 

 contact with mineral emanations or gases floating in the 

 atmosphere near hills for instance a reciprocal action is sure 

 to take place. The gases will thus mingle, form cloud and 

 rain, and descend) causing a vacuum, which attracts the 

 atmosphere from all quarters, thus producing wind. A 

 vacuum, therefore, is not caused by the vapour ascending, as 

 Sir John Herschell says, but by the gases coalescing, occupying 

 less space as vapour and water, and then descending to the 

 earth. 



In place of Herschell's and Rogers' untenable theories we 

 present the following : The " magnetic curves " formed by 



