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begins the series of quarterly volumes of the “Atlas Généraux 
des Mouvemens de l’Atmosphére.” To the preface of this vol 
ume we must refer for the fullest detail of Teves under 
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Netherlands, and those of “prey # (died, May, 1865), and Bab- | 
success was given by the labors of our own countrymen. 4 q 
Franklin® is said to have been the first who strictly defined ’ 
and published the general law that the storms of our Southern | 
‘States move off to the northeastward over the Middle and 
* Earlier than Franklin must have been Lewis Evans, who, according to Hon. 7. _ 
Pownal, M. P., lished in 1749 at Philadelphia, the brief statement of this ge0- _ 
_ eral law. (See 8 yp 879). 
