40 OF CLOUDS. CHAP. 2. 



CHAPTER II. 



FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE PECU- 

 LIARITIES OF THE CLOUDS. 



IN the foregoing chapter I have given a hasty 

 and imperfect sketch of M. Howard's theory 

 of the origin, suspension, and destruction of 

 clouds. I shall next proceed to examine further 

 the various appearances which the different 

 modifications present in the progress of their 

 formation, changes, and destruction; the influ- 

 ence which they appear to have on each other, 

 and the connexion observable between their 

 peculiarities and other atmospheric phaenomena. 

 The reader will see how far these phaenomena 

 are reconcileable with what has been already 

 said in the above chapter. In investigating the 

 causes of these changes, I have selected such 

 few cases as appeared necessary to illustrate 

 them, and for further particulars I refer to the 

 Appendix at the end of the volume, and to my 

 journal in the Philosophical Magazine. In this 



