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better, but we can the better describe them and gather information in regard to 

 the weather by their form and combination, etc. 



LXI. Winds. — The winds are governed by the condition low, and therefore 

 the governing condition has been spoken of first; yet the two are inseparable, and 

 are only here apparently separated because language will not allow us to speak of 

 two things at once. 



LXII. The force of the wind depends upon the power of low. 



LXIII. The direction of the wind will generally be toward low: it may be 

 deflected by local forces, for the local is ever contending against the general, and 

 the reverse. This has been referred to under the head of low. The harder the 

 wind the more direct it will blow toward the center. It has been said that if we 

 will stand with our left hands toward the region of high, and our right toward the 

 region of low, that the wind will be in our faces; but the weather maps do not 

 seem to warrant this as a general fact, though when there is a very large circle of 

 low, and therefore not concentrated, such at times may locally appear to be the 

 case. If there is anything in the idea of the conditions of low as herein spoken 

 of, it would seem natural that the currents of air should generally be in towards 

 the centre low. The daily weather maps seem to warrant the assertion and to be 

 in full harmony with it. 



LXIV. As to the force of the wind, it all depends upon the rapidity with 

 which it is moving, and the rapidity depends upon the positiveness of the condi- 

 tion known as low. It is, however, subject to natural forces in a similar manner 

 to more materialistic things, water for example. 



LXV. It will be more or less retarded by friction, and over the sea there 

 will be less friction than over the land and less over level tracts than over uneven 

 and mountainous districts. 



LXVI. As the wind will travel in as straight a line as possible, we can often- 

 times, by observation as to the direction of the wind, trace the course of low, 

 and form an approximate idea as to its probable locality. Occasionally there is 

 an apparent exception as to the course of the wind towards low ; for example, we 

 sometimes have quite a cold south wind. This, however, will be found to be 

 only local, and that such a south wind is in reality a west wind, with simply a 

 changed direction for a comparatively short distance — changed by some local 

 condition, such as a struggle to develope a sub or local low, or occasioned by 

 some natural lay of land, such as the presence of a body of water, a mountain 

 range, etc. An illustration of this effect may often be noticed in a city ; though 

 the wind may be blowing from the northwest, it may eddy or be deflected around 

 some corner and blow (locally) from the southwest or even south. Because in 

 this confined locality the wind was from the south, it would not be right to say 

 that it was a south wind. 



LXVII. Old people often speak of the wind going around from one quar- 

 ter to another "with the sun." Such observations are oftentimes made and 

 transmitted from generation to generation, yet without reason. People see that 

 a storm comes, passes and clears off in a certain manner, but it was not until 



