132 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
S.E. from the land. The former greatly proneenanne: orbiting an 
aggregate of 880 observations, to 215 of the That is to say, 
the =_— blew from the ocean semicircle more ool Asses pee of 
the yea 
Ii is sill more striking that the winds came from due welds rather 
from the octant corresponding to that point, more than half. the year; 
the summing up of that column being 557, nen 538 from all other 
points, embracing seven-eighths of the compas 
serve the remarkable contrast between is columns of west and 
east winds, the latter presenting only seventeen observations in the 
year! It is a well ascertained fact that westerly winds predominate, 
in the temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere, on both conli- 
nents, But I cannot discover that in any other spot on the globe the 
winds blow — one bea 186 days, and from the opposite octant 
only six days in the yea 
Dividing tg into as seasons,” January, February and Decem- 
ber being ‘classed as the winter months, we have the following result. 
| N. | N.E.| E. | SE. | S 
Spring, A128 3 | 144115 
Summer, ] 2 3 41% 
Autumn, 19 7 5 16 | 33 
Winter, 68 | 16 6 | 82 |40 
Thus it.appears that the proportion of land winds to sea winds, in 
the several months, was as 
January, land winds 52 observations ; sea, winds 41 observations. 
31 53 
February, 
arch, is 18 # 75 Z 
April, “ 13 sg eg 77 * 
May, &“ 5 6c “ 88 sé 
June, &c 4 “ ‘“ 86 sé 
July, 6c 2 “c “cc 90 “ 
August, “ 3 sf “ 90 ” 
September, ‘ 3 * a 87 “ 
October, “ 20 ss “ 73 # 
November, ‘ 24 ig “ «66 = 
December,, “ “ “ 54 " 
Grouping the months into seasons, and reducing the observations * to 
days, three observations representing one entire day, w e find in the— 
Spring, land winds 12 days; sea winds 80 days. 
Summer, es | Eias ts o..* 
Autumn, = 16 « 66 ‘To. 2 
Winter, = 4t « se fees 
Total, = 772 « ss 293. * 
In every month of ~ year the sea winds exceed = land winds, 
except January, when the reverse occurred. In Jan 1 
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