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registering cup -anemometer revolve merrily. So the 

 military observers told off for the purpose register those 

 revolutions faithfully, and that direction unflinchingly, send 

 the numbers and letters read off to Lisbon ; and the 

 Government, through "the Meteorological Observatory 

 of the Infant Dom Luis," so prints the returns from a 

 little protected nook and corner, that they come to stand 

 for a full, true, and particular account of all the wind 

 that blows over all the Madeiran portion of the world. 



Mr. White, an earlier and independent observer, 

 knowing that the summer wind in Funchal was merely a 

 little back eddy of what was really blowing at large, used 

 to judge for general purposes, not by what he felt in the 

 city, but by what he could see of the appearance of the 

 sea in the distance, and especially by the sailings of the 

 country coasting boats ; evidently, too, he had reason, 

 and has been therefore quoted therein by me. 



In this manner, after collecting a set of eclectic 

 meteorological returns for Madeira, as a point in latitude 

 33, and through the cycle of a whole year or the mean 

 of many years (as shown in Table I of Appendix II.) ; I 

 then endeavoured to procure comparable returns for 

 Lisbon in latitude 39 ; Jerusalem, latitude 32 ; and 

 Scotland, central, in latitude 56, In which inquiry I am 

 happy to say that I was admirably assisted by Mr. Alex. 

 Buchan, who has kindly set before me many volumes of 

 great value, by aid of which I have prepared the Tables 

 2, 3, and 4 in Appendix II. ; and, in fact, am now enabled 



