226 winds. 



constantly setting in from north and south. These 

 two polar currents take a direction more and more 

 easterly (westward), and, at the place of original 

 influence, namely, in the belt of the calms, a due 

 easterly direction ; for here slight breezes from the 

 east alternate with calms, just as is required by the 

 law of rotation. 



Dove has brought together a great number of 

 observations, made in different parts of the world, 

 in proof of the universal truth of this law. It may 

 now be considered as established, that in the tem- 

 perate, and probably also in the frigid zones, where 

 southern currents are continually alternating with 

 northern, the wind runs round the compass turning 

 generally in one certain direction ; and that, in the 

 northern hemisphere, the direction of this veering 

 round is generally the contrary to that which 

 prevails in the southern hemisphere. 



