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would affect the time of precipitation in any manner whatever. 
Possibly other inquirers may be more ingenious and more for- 
tunate. Possibly the unknown operations of the intricate ma- 
chinery of the winds might be made to yield another result to 
more subtle analysis. And indeed I am tempted to suggest 
here a line of thought which if carefully pursued might lead to 
argue otherwise, 
