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cumstances, and beconiing successively the cause 

 and effect of considerable and different phenomena, 

 I shall proceed to the particulars necessaiy to make 

 known their respective course. 



1. Of the North^ J^^orth-easty and East Winds* 



Of all the winds that occur in the United States, 

 none is so rare as due north. To the southward it 

 seems to be more frequent, from the observations 

 made at Williamsburg, and quoted by Mr. Jeffer* 

 son:* when it does occur, it is rather moist than 

 diry, rather cloudy than clear, and always cold. 



Morth-east Wind. 



The north-east wind, like most others, as it 

 changes its country, alters its character, or at least 

 its qualities. In Egypt, where it beai's the name 

 of gregalcy I found it cold, cloudy, and oppressing 

 the head with its heaviness: in the Mediterranean, 

 it was rainy, louring, and squally : in France, par- 

 ticularly north of the Cevennes, we complain of it 

 as the dryest of all winds ; in the United States, on 

 the contrary, it is held in aversion as the wettest, 

 and oce of the coldest. The problem of these dif- 

 ferences or contrasts is resolvable with facility by 

 an inspection of the map of the W orid. 



In the United States the north-east wind comes 



* See Notes on VirgiiBo, 127. . 



