CLIMATE OF AEGENTINA. 



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to these south-eastern squalls, which are nearly always accompanied by heavy 

 rains. 



Here also the less dangerous pan7pero, or pampas wind, blows with equal violence 

 from south-west to north-east across the central plains, reaching at times as far 

 as and beyond Cape Frio on the Brazilian coast. This pure, dry, and salubrious 



Fig. 161.— Closed Basins of Argentina. 

 Scale 1 : 20,000,000. 



=. 620 Miles. 



wind lasts sometimes only a few hours, at others several days. But on the whole, 

 the climate of these coastlands is more equable, and scarcely ever exposed tr» the 

 intolerable heats, which are felt, especially in calm weather, in the inland '•' Sa- 

 haras." 



In the conflict between the equatorial and polar currents, the former neaily 



