324 



Synopsis of a Meteorological Journal. 



Monthly and annual results for 1 839 : to which are added the 

 mean annual results from 1833 to 1839 inclusive. 



Average proportion of easterly winds in 1000 for seven years, 343 



" westerly winds " " " 657 



The westerly winds being to the easterly, nearly as two to one. 



Of the highest observed winds in the region of clouds, the pro- 

 portion of easterly winds in 1000, is .... 77 



Proportion of westerly winds, ..... 923 

 Being nearly as tioelve to one. Were not the movements of the 

 higher strata sometimes concealed from view, particularly in east- 

 erly storms, the observations of the highest wind, it is believed, 

 would be almost invariably from some western point of the ho-^ 

 rizon. 



