158 P. E. Chase on Meteorological Comparison. 
can germinate. 
All the moist and forest-covered places and valleys on the 
lower parts of Tahiti and elsewhere, cited as exceptions, are 
those by which, on account of their moist surface, the progress 
fire that once destroyed the forests on the drier slopes and 
convex localities, was arrested. 
Art. XX.—A new method of Meteorological comparison, with three 
tlustrative Tables ;* by Puiny Eare Cuase, M.A.,S.P.A.S. 
[Concluded from p. 95.] 
servations, that there are some indications of a similar character 
to those in the St. Helena Table; but they are, comparatively, 
so slight, that another form of comparison has given re 
which are more satisfactory to my own mind. 
: From the Proceedi A hice! 
2 M. Kaemtz (Meteorology, Walker’s translation, p-4 
pends, like the height of the barometer, on the direction Bei 
rature.” This is the earliest intimation we yet discovered, which can be 
ibly construed as either implying or tending to demonstrate a direct correlation 
ao cott weight and magnetism. The resemblance between the curves of wind 
force and magnetic vertical force, would naturally lead one 
than to the declination, for the most striking evidence of the 
rection of the wind. 
£ 42 = 4 oe ¥, 
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51) states that “the dip de 
of the wind and on tem- 
the dip rather 
to look to the cae 
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