156 Synopsis of a Meteorological Journal. 
SURFACE WIND, HIGHEST OBSERVED CURRENT. 
Observations for the year 1834. 5 z E 2 = z EF 3 
Bier Ea hy Bid Raat | uc 
fel fe 2 8 ai = = 
Zz zen) ie 2 foe th th PAL 
January, : . | 388} 14 524) 571 4) 2h | 59) 380d 
February, . © 4S T6855) 29 OO ese as: 
March, . A , 19 e570 1-39 1 3 | 4S ae 
April, : . . | 47 | 175, 444) 261 51 5 | 54d) 245 
May, . : 2 Ba) 25) Gla! sod, ONE waar enn 
June, . : . | 225 27 | 624; 80 | 11 113 | 84d) 424 
July, . 4 . | 82! 184 88; 9] 2] 0 |1004) 253 
August, ‘ . | 46 | 115, 583) 24} 9) 0 | GL) 393 
September, . if) 29a? le I Gl | 34d) 6 | 1. | Geka 
October, : : 2 | 69 | 67 | 3 | 0 | 703) 40 
November, . ee al 5a | COs) OOo Goeeae 
December, . Ai) |e 1 ABS ol) 4 OP enon en 
382 14947044 447 | 63 264 |762 |380 | 
The observations of Easterly winds as shewn by the last 
table, are. : : : : : : 5314 
és te of Westerly do. . : : oe ihe hs 
Prevailing winds, Southwesterly. 
Observations of Easterly upper wind, 5 : : 89s 
« Westerly ie : f : 1142 
Prevailing upper winds, Southwesterly. 
Proportion of Westerly surface wind in 1000, .. 5 684 
pia vinn 166 “¢ Westerly upper “ i 928 
My journal for the year 1832 is imperfect in canveqnthey of in- 
terruptions, amounting m the aggregate to about three months, and 
is therefore omitted. The proportion of Westerly winds which it 
records is 672 in 1000. 
These results, in their general character, appear to coincide with 
the observations which have been made in other parts of the United 
States, and it is believed are by no means peculiar to the place in 
which they were observed. Indeed there is evidence which is deem- 
ed sufficient to establish the position, that we have a southwesterly and 
westerly current of atmosphere, of varying altitude, sweeping over 
the United States, as regular and as constant as the northeasterly 
and easterly winds which prevail at the Island of Barbadoes, or in the 
general region of the trade winds. 
