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ted, and the different streams have a temperature from 17° to 28° (62.6° to 

 82.4° Fahr.). At these baths may also be found every accommodation for 

 the infirm and other visitors. 



Equal convenience may be found at the baths of CoUna, situated at ten 

 leagues to the northeast of Santiago, at an elevation of 909 metres. The 

 temperature of the waters is from 25° to 32° (77° to 89.6° Fahr.). This 

 contains a quantity of alkaline principles in solution ; they are neverthe- 

 less very efficacious in certain maladies. 



In all the other baths, which, from their chemical composition, might 

 be even preferable, there has not been the slightest trouble taken to gain 

 access to them easily, or to supply the means of lodging or living there 

 with any comfort. It is necessary to bring all sorts of provisions, beds, 

 etc., with one, to erect a hut or cabin, and to bath in the open air. Hence 

 it arises that, with few exceptions, only the inhabitants in the vicinity of 

 these baths make any use of them or have any experience of their medieal 

 virtues. 



METEOROLOGY. 



THE STORMS OF JUNE AND JULY, 1877. 

 (COMPILED BY THE EDITOR.) 



Within the past six week unusually severe wind storms have prevailed 

 in different portions of the country under circumstances so different and ex 

 hibiting such peculiar phenomena that it seems impossible to reduce them 

 to any system or classify them under any law hitherto suggested by either 

 Kedfield, Peddington, Eeid, Espy, Peslin, Faye, or Tice. v 



Without attempting to establish or support any theory regarding such 

 phenomenal occurrences, we will briefly quote from that of the distinguish- 

 ed physicist, Faye, of Paris, which differs materially in many respects from 

 those of the earlier writers : 



" i^irsif, cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, and waterspouts are 

 phenomena of one and tne same mechanical nature, and to all of which the 

 same general explanatory theory will apply. Second, since the eye can em- 

 brace the two latter phenomena in their totality, while the other three 

 classes of storms are spread over too vast an extent of territory for any one 

 observer to seize all their features directly, therefore we ought at first to 

 begin our discussion and investigation with the consideration of tornadoes 

 and waterspouts, at least if we desire to base our conclusions upon facts 

 only. Third, the greater part of meteorologists attribute these phenome- 

 na to a vertical aspiration, whose existence they gratuitously assume at the 

 commencement of their investigation. Under certain statical conditions of 



