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Prevailing direction of winds, Saint Catherine's Island, coast of Georgia. August, 1878. 

 10th, southwest; llth, southwest ; 12th, southwest ; 13th, southwest ; 14th, southwest ; 

 loth, south; l(kh, northeast; 17th, south; 18th, northwest; 19th, west; 20th, west; 

 21st, southwest ; 22d, east; 23d, east; 24th, southeast; 25th, southwest; 2Gth, north- 

 west ; 27th, south ; 28th, southwest ; 29th, south ; 30th, south ; 31st, south. 



LOUISIANA. 



In July the winds are from the south and southeast. After July they vary. [John 

 A. Mary man, East Feliciana. 



The prevailing direction of the wind from July till frost is from the south. [Dr. I. 

 U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



From east to south and south to southwest is the general direction of the wind from 

 July to frost, yet it frequently boxes the compass during that period, and from the 

 15th of September to frost is often from northeast to north. fDr. E. H. Anderson, Mad- 

 ison. 



From some southerly point varying to east. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



From southwest. [C. Welch, Covingtou. 



Mostly south. [Kenneth Clarke, Chickasaw. 



From the south. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



Southerly and westerly until about the equinox, -when we have northeast storms 

 occasionally. [J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



July, August, to September 15, mostly south ; after that, west to north. [W. Spill- 

 man, Clark. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Southwest. [J. Evans, Cumberland. 

 Southwest. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South and southwest and south by west. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 

 South winds. [Paul S. Felder, Orangeburgh. 



From July till frost from the east around to southwest ; mostly from southeast to 

 southwest. [James C. Brown, Bamwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



Prevailing directions of winds from July until frost are as follows : July, southwest and 

 south, latter predominating ; August, southwest and west, former predominating ; Sep- 

 tember, southwest rarely, west and northwest, west predominating ; October, west and 

 northwest, latter predominating. [A. W. Hunt, Perry. 



Winds vary a good deal, mostly from southwest, northwest, and west. [John Mc- 

 Millan, Decatur. 



TEXAS. 



South and southeast till three or four days before frost, then changed to northwest 

 and north for three or four days. [Samuel Davis, Hunt. 



South. [P. S. Clarke, Waller. 



Southeast. [A. Schroeter, Burnet. 



Southeast. [H. J. H. Brensing, Bowie. 



South to southwest. [W. Barnes, Cherokee. 



July, August, and September, south, southeast, southwest; October, changeable; 

 November, northers set in; frost. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



The winds are varied from July to frost, but mostly from south, south by east and 

 south by west, and more or less from the east. [O. II. P. Garrett, Washington. 



The winds from July till frost are from the south. We have in all the months squalls 

 from the northwest and north, but they only last a day or two. [ J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



The winds in July and August are about the same as in. the preceding two months ; 

 in September north winds begin to occur, in October becoming more frequent, the iirst 

 frost generally occurring about the middle of November. In 1859 in the latter half of 

 November we had two severe snow-storms in one week. Up to date the present year, 

 the 18th, no frost. [J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



From the south it occurs at special times all through the year (on change of weather) 

 that we have a west wind, an east and northeast wind, but this does not last long. 

 [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



South and southwest. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



Southeast. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



From south to east. [S. Harbert, Colorado. 



South to southwest. [J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



More generally from the south ; sometimes a damp east wind, backed by a " Yankee 

 norther." [Natt. Holman, Fayette. 



