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CATALOGUE. — METKOKOIOG Y, TVIND. 



Degeer's exiilanation of a shower of insects. 



A. P. 1750. H. 30. 

 Borlase on a storm. Ph. tr. 1753. 80. 

 Miller on a storm in Cumberhind. Ph. tr. 



1757. 194. ^ 

 Griffith on a storm at Oxford. Ph. tr. 1765. 



273. 



Particular kinds and effects of 

 Wind. 



Waterspouts. See Atmospherical Electricity. 



Pliny xi. c. 103. 



Says, that waves are stilled by oil. Quoted by Cayallo. 

 Boyle's relations about the bottom of the sea. 



Says, that storms have little effect at 20 feet below the 

 surfsce of the sea, and probably none at 30 feet, 



Wright on a sand flood in Suffolk. Ph. tr. 

 « 1668. III. 722. 



Templer on two hurricanes in Northampton- 

 shire. Ph. tr. 1671. VI. 2156. 



Langford on hurricanes. Ph. tr. I698. XX. 

 407. Abr. II. 105. 



Thinks, that hurricanes are connected with the moon. 

 Before a hurricane the skies appear turbulent, the sun looks 

 red, although the hills are free from clouds or fogs. All 

 hunicanes begin between N. and W. their course is gene- 

 ■ rally opposite to that of the trade winds. Tornados come 

 from several points. 



Bocanbrey. See Waterspouts. 



Derby on a whirlwind. Ph. tr. 1739. XLl. 



229. 

 Fuller on a hurricane in Huntingdonshire. 



Ph.tr. 1741. XLI. 851. 

 Lord Lovell on a fiery whirlwind. Ph. tr. 



1742. 183. 



A flash of fire, or lather more than a flash, with a jmell 

 oftulfur. 



On a whirlwind. C. Bon. II. i. 453. 

 Henry on a stream of wind. Ph. tr. 1753. 

 XLII. 



Franklin and others on stilling waves by oil. 

 Ph.tr. 1774.445. 



The success was partial only, as might be expected. 



Franklin. Am. tr. 11. 



Says, that one side of a piece of water, 3 feet deep and 10 

 miles wide, has been raised 10 feet by the wind, the other - 

 being left bare. 



.Servieres on a singular wind. Roz. XIII. 



Suppl. 132. 

 Dobson on the harmattan. Ph. tr. 1781. 46. 



An extremely dry wind in Africa, coming from the 

 N. E. drying even potash. It generally brings a fog of 

 soraeunknowTH nature. 



On the harmattan. Goth. M. I. iv.41. 

 On the Samum. Goth. M. IV. iii. 38. 

 Ducarla on winds cooled by evaporation. 



Roz. XXII. 432. 

 Saussure on cold winds. Nich. I. 229. Gilb. 



III. 201. 



Dalton on bottom winds on Derwent lake. 

 Meteor, obs. 52. 

 No theory. 

 A violent tornado in Berwickshire. Ph. M. 



IV. 219. 



Lamarck on a hurricane. Journ. Phys. LII. 



377. 

 Clos on partial winds. Journ. Phys. LIV. 



259. 

 Mitchell on a N. E. storm in America. Ph. 



M. XIII. 273. 



Franklin observed, that such storms generally begin I© 

 leeward : they advance 100 miles in an hour. 



Currents of the Sea. 



Smith's conjecture respecting an inferior cur- 

 rent in the Straights. Ph. tr. l684. XIV. 

 564. 



Says, that an inferior current was found in the Baltic so 

 strong as to carry a boat against a superior current, by 

 m«ans of a bucket sunk with a cannon ball. 



