WINDS OF THE GLOBE. 



SERIES B. GENERAL TABLES. 



Latitude 85° to 90° North. 



This zone having never been visited by man, direct observations of its winds are 

 wanting, and their character must necessarily be very much a matter of conjecture. 

 It can only be inferred very obscurely from that of those in the contiguous zones. 

 If ever the north pole is reached, the wind there may perhaps more probably be 

 found to blow from the direction of the Eastern Siberian polar seas, towards Iceland, 

 on the west of Europe. 



Latitude 80° to 85° North. 



The materials for the study of the winds of this zone consist of the observations 

 of Dr. Kane and his party, for five days in the summer of 1854, on the eastern 

 shore of Smith's Strait, those of the German Polar Expedition north of Spitzbergen 

 for four days in July and August and five in September, 1868; those of Parry 

 from June 25 to August 10, 1827, on the ice north of Spitzbergen, — periods of 

 time too short to afi^ord any very reliable results; and those of Captain Hall's party 

 from November 6, 1871, to August 15, 1872. In May, 1861, Dr. Hayes and party 

 spent ten days in this zone, on the western shore of Smith's Strait, but do not appear 

 to have taken note of the direction of the wind to any great extent. With the 

 exception of Captain Hall's command, that spent the winter of 1H71-2 in latitude 

 82° 16' N. in Polaris Bay, no other civilized parties have ever travelled north of the 

 80th parallel. The observed directions of the wind, and the computed resultants, 

 were as follows : — 



(No. 1.) Smith's Strait. Longitude G.5° to 15° W. 



Observed directions — N. 3, N. E. 1, calm 1 ; total 5. 

 Direction of resultant N. 10° 50' E. H 1 

 Ratio of resultant to sum of winds .75 



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