CHAPTER V. 



THE ATMOSPHERIC OCEAN ORDER IN ITS FLOW OFFICES OF THE 

 ATMOSPHERE DANGERS LESSENED BY SCIENCE CURRENTS OF 

 ATMOSPHERE CAUSE OF WIND TWO GREAT CURRENTS DIS- 

 TURBING INFLUENCES CALMS VARIABLE WINDS CAUSES 



THEREOF LOCAL CAUSES OF DISTURBANCE GULF STREAM'S 

 INFLUENCE THE WINDS MAPPED OUT A SUPPOSED CASE. 



|ISH are not the only creatures that live in 

 an ocean. We, the human inhabitants of 

 this Earth, dwell at the bottom of an ocean 

 of air, which encircles the globe. Fish, however, 

 have the advantage of us, inasmuch as they can float 

 and dart about in their ocean, while we, like the 

 crabs, can only crawl about at the bottom of ours. 



This atmospheric ocean is so closely connected 

 with the sea, and exercises upon it so constant, 

 universal, and important an influence, that to omit, 

 in a work of this kind, very special reference to the 

 winds, would be almost as egregious an oversight as 

 to ignore the waves. 



Wind, or atmospheric air in motion, is the cause 

 of storms, of waves, of water-transport through the 

 sky, and of an incalculable amount of varied phe- 



