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current from N.N.W. to S.S.E., approximately, or from S.S.E. 
to N.N.W. (according to the boreal or austral nature of the 
ether), is formed in this Ether; that this current is liable to in- 
terruptions or perversions of the same kind as those which we 
are able to observe in currents of air and water; and that their 
effect is generally similar, producing eddies and whirls, of vio- 
lence sometimes far exceeding that of the general current from 
which a are derived ;” 
8. “And in the relation ae te K. and W. disturbances and 
eri lscertecstee there is-a point which well deserves atten- 
tio Then a water-funnel passed nearly over the observer, 
ivelling (suppose) in a N. direction, he w rould first ghgeiric: = 
rong ‘current to the E., afterward a strong current to 
(or bite ver: sa), and between these there would be a very oon 
vertical pressure in one direction, not accompanied by one in 
the opposite direction ; thus he w ould have half as many verti- 
eal as horizontal impulses. This state of things corresponds to 
1€ i aceite at Kew have a decided 
double m “i ma with an intervening interval of about eight 
- nine urs 
Dh conical form and single maximum which character- 
izes the easter!) y deflections at Kew, belong also to the _ 
deflections in all localities in North ’ America, where the ] aws of 
the disturbances have been investigated. But. . . at Nert- 
Schinsk and Pekin . . . the co onical form and single maximum 
“ped a swesler ly deflections, whilst the easterly have the 
double m At the two Asiatic stations, the ag- 
Siler eahes “of he wwester ‘ly deflections decidedly heen 
Whilst in America the easter at a sr no less decided] 
Pee? 
annual variation, sowie! the north end of the magnet points 
More toward the east when the sun is north, and toward - 
West when the sun is south, of the equator;” p. 291. 
