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was iC. No case of air actually saturated with 

 moisture was observed . . . . . .119 



Table of Observations . . . . .121 



Kxplanation of the fact that the temperature of the 

 air is usually lower than that of the surface of the sea . i 2 2 



Comparison with observations made in the East 

 during the prevalence of the south-west monsoon . i 23 



My frequent visits to the River Plate have afforded 

 me the opportunity of remarking the astonishing 

 development of the countries bordering on it and 

 especially of the city of Buenos Aires in the course of 

 less than forty years. 



On my arrival in the estuary in 1885 the s.s. 

 "Leibnitz" in which I travelled, anchored in the roads 

 about twelve uiiles below the city of Buenos Aires, as had 

 been the custom of sailing ships, and disembarked her 

 passengers into a steam launch which proceeded to a 

 landing in trout ot the Custom House; but, the draft of 

 the launch being too great, the passengers were taken 

 off in carts with very high wheels and landed on the 

 beach. When I revisited Buenos Aires in the year 

 1888 the steamer still anchored in the roads, but the 

 launch which took the passengers landed them 

 on a jetty at the Custom House. On my visit in the 

 year 1899 the steamer went into the port of the city of 

 La Plata and the passengers proceeded to Buenos Aires 

 by rail. Finally, in my last visit, in the year 1907, the 

 steamer entered the M ulero Port and landed its 

 passengers in the city of Bin-in is Aires itself. 



These chronological data have a geographical 



Ifl markin in the rapid advance of 



Buenos Aires from the status <i an old Spanish Colonial 



me to that <f a Hist -rl.tss American city of the 



twentieth century. 



OUR OF THE SEA. [ l-"r< mi \ntiut , | ill v 2 i , 



i i xxxiv. pp. 87-89] i .- 1 



There arc- two typical p itmieuts, both 1 



them which are m.i.ie i>\- tra\-ilers by sea, 



and vrrvoltrn l.\ ; mini, naiin-ly, (a) the 



'llie COlOIII ot the sra is not the truCCOlOUF 



lea; ami '/, the flight ot the tlvm- tish is not due 



to tli- llgS. 



