288 GOSSIP THE AFFINITY OF RACES. 



Of these 47 recorded galss 17 blew between the South and 

 West ; eight between South and East ; eleven between West and 

 North ; and eleven between East and North. 



The greatest velocity of wind registered in 24 hours during the 

 month of January was 882*8 miles on the 12th. 



February 



1061-4 







7th. 



March 



1346-8 







25th. 



April 



1443-8 







17th. 



May 



966-2 







3rd. 



June 



764-4 







3rd. 



July 



837-2 







30th. 



August 



633-2 







27th. 



Septr. 



667-2 







19th. 



Octr. 



870-0 







27th. 



Novr. 



1112-0 







7th. 



Deer. 



1343-4 







13th. 



Art. IX. The 



Affinity 



OF 



Kaces. 



By 



By Wm. Gossip. 



(Read April 14, 1873.; 



The paper I am about to read does not recommend itself by 

 any new scientific discovery. It is ethnological in its character, 

 but speculative, hypothetical and discursive. It may serve to vary 

 the routine of our ordinary meetings, but I fear will be of little 

 value except perhaps as it may be an incentive to pursue the subject. 

 It presumes an affinity of races in the Eastern and Western hemis- 

 pheres, based upon a similarity of names, of etymologies and customs. 

 I can adduce no positive evidence to prove the connection ; and 

 there are forcible reasons in the wide expanse of ocean between the 

 Continents at the present day, against the probability of inter-com- 

 munication at any previous period of human history. Still, if we 

 believe in the unity of mankind, the peopling of America remains 

 to be accounted for on hypotheses or theory, either of disruption 

 or derivation, or both, in the absence of complete evidence ; and 



