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lected from guides, travellers, &c. it may be valuable, and I add a few 

 queries which will suggest more. 



15. If it could be possible to establish the dates of the occurrences 

 of storms at various points we might thus also obtain other evidence 

 of their progression and routes, as also of their rates of travelling. 

 Thus if a storm was felt at Yarkund on the 10th, and at Iskardo on 

 the 13th, and we found that it was travelling to the S. westward at 

 Yarkund the probabilities then are, that it is the same storm which 

 has taken three days to pass over this distance. If its passage over 

 an intermediate station was known this would be a certainty. At sea 

 circular storms travel from If up to 48 miles an hour on their tracks. 



Queries to be put as occasion offers to guides, travellers, head-men 

 of villages, fyc. 



1 . What are the names by which you call the different kinds of 

 whirlwinds and storms of wind of all kinds, large and small ? 



2. Why do you call them by those names ? Are the names only 

 those of their deities, &c. or because of their motion, or of their effects ? 



3. Are these names Tartar or Chinese ? 



4. Do you know the kinds of wind-storms which the Chinese call 

 by the names of 



A. Tae-fung (great wind). 



B. Kow-fung or fung-kou (great turning wind ?) 



C. Tee-hwuy (Iron whirlwind). 



D. Tee-hew (Iron whirlwind). 



E. A noise before the tyfoon called Leen-fung (a tyfoon brewing), 

 or any other kinds, and what are their Chinese and Tartarian names 1 



5. What are the effects of these various winds ? 



6. What are the Tartar names of the different gods or spirits of 

 the winds ? 



7. Do you know of the goddess or spirit called by the Chinese 

 Keu-woo? (The tyfoon-mother). 



8. Have you, or the Chinese, any temples dedicated to the spirits of 

 the winds ? 



9. Have you any particular quarter of the heavens from which the 

 storms come ; like what the Chinese call Lug-chow (or the region of 

 the thunder) ? 



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