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join to produce the warmest period at a seasou when, by the 

 orders of an all-wise Creator, doubtless it is the most useful ; 

 and as well to bring the greatest cold when its benefits also may 

 be most suitably bestowed. A marked and most interesting 

 instance of the e5ect of this reception and discharging of heat, 

 both by laud and water, may be observed in Cuba, and other 

 tropical Islands. For months together the phenomena of sea 

 and land breezes occur daily and nightly. Between about 8 and 

 10 a.m. may be noticed a dead calm ; gradually (the water 

 being less heated than the land) as the power of the sun's rays 

 increases, a breeze, at first gentle, and by noon strong, blows in 

 from seaward, and continues till late in the afternoon, fahiug 

 tov.^ards sunset, and dying away completely by (5 or 7 'm the 

 evening ; a short lull occurs, but soon pulls of v.-iiul oil the shore 

 are felt, and night has scarce fallen ere a steady land breeze is 

 blowing, ceasing as the sun again rises, to tlie calm first men- 

 tioned, to be followed as before, till causes outside of these dis- 

 turb the rotation ; as happens more frequently from midsummer 

 till the end of autunm. We know then that both land and water- 

 have a certain amount of heat to be overcome, and hero we see 

 the land more sensible to the changes of the atmosjihere than 

 the water, and the draft of air setting alv,Ti3"s from the cooler to 

 the warmer ; leading us ori to a consideration of the laws which, 

 the currents of our atmosDhere follovr, but which I vdll not at- 

 tempt to enter upon at this time. 



Art. X. On the Fishes of St. MAPtGASET's Bay. Br 

 Eey. John AiiBPvOSE. 



The TuFtBOT. 



The mere announcement of the name of this fish will cause 

 the English Apicius to prick np his ears. Long has it been oust 

 in our teeth that our extensive list of food fishes is sadiy iuconi- 

 plete, seeing that it includes neither the turbot nor sole. In 

 vain do we endeavour to draw ofi" attention from this want, by. 

 pointing to our luscious halibut, whick could not ha¥e been' eoDr 



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