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34. Are they most violent in the hills and mountain passes, or at 

 the foot of them or when altogether in the plains ? 



35. In what countries are they most violent ; i. e. do they do most 

 mischief? 



36. Have the volcanoes and the hurricanes any connection ; that is, 

 did you ever hear or know that the eruption of the volcanoes caused 

 hurricanes ? 



37. Are there any parts of the country which you know or of which 

 you have heard that cannot be traversed on account of the storms and 

 when does this occur ? 



Of course no one individual will be able to reply to all these questions, 

 but from the priests and head-men down to the guides, each may give 

 his quota and their replies may lead to more information. 



The religious part of the queries is of interest as like the other Chi- 

 nese ones, it may shew the connection between the Chinese maritime 

 storms and deities and the inland ones. 



P. S, As illustrating this singular phsenomenon of inland hurri- 

 canes, I add here a passage from the forthcoming new edition of the 

 Sailor's Horn-Book, from which it would appear that hurricanes (as to 

 violence) are perfectly well known to the Tchukutskoi of Behring's 

 Straits ! and they are also most frequent and severe, and true revolving 

 storms in Iceland! See Vol. XIV. p. 297, of Jameson's Edinburgh 

 Journal of Science in a paper on the Glaciers and climate of Iceland 

 by W. Sartorius Von Walterhausen. 



" Kotzebue in the RuricJcs voyage of discovery, Vol. II. p. 160 of the 

 8vo. edition, describes a storm of hurricane violence on the 13th April, 

 in Lat. 44° 30' N. Long. 181° West, but he gives no account of the 

 veering of the wind. Again in the voyage of the Rurick, Vol. I. p. 

 264, after a smart gale in the neighbourhood of the St. Lawrence 

 Islands he was informed by the Tchukutskoi of St. Lawrence's Bay on 

 the Asiatic Coast of Behring's Straits in 65° 40 ; North " that the time 

 of violent storms was at hand, and that the last had been only a faint 

 wind. He gave us to understand tbat in a real storm nobody was able 

 to stand on their legs, but that they were obliged to lay themselves flat 

 on the ground." This is exactly, as to violence, the description which 

 a Carib of the West Indian islands might have given to Columbus, or 

 which a Mauritius or Jamaica negro would give of their hurricanes in 



