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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
many points of general interest have appeared, and an 
attempt will be made to summarise them here. 
The vcloeity of the wind can be recorded automatically 
without much difficulty, and this has been done at many 
observatories, so that we know the chief characteristics 
ol the wind in most countries. In tlie Antarctic a con- 
tinuous automatic record of the wind was obtained at 
Cape Evans ; while at Cape Adare and Framheim frequent 
eye observations were made ; we have therefore the data 
for an interesting comparison. 
The character of the wind in the British Isles is found 
to be very similar at different stations. Calms are very 
seldom recorded, and at the other end of the scale winds 
of a greater velocity than 50 miles an hour are rare. 
There must therefore be some intermediate velocity 
which occurs most frequently. The records of three years 
have been taken for Yarmoutli on the Norfolk coast, 
and the number of times winds of different velocities 
occurred counted. 
The result of the count is shown in the second column 
of Table II, from which it will be seen that at Yarmouth 
winds having a velocity of 4 miles an hour or less only occur 
on the average during 5*2 liours out of a hundred. The 
wmd blows between 5 and 9 miles per hour for 23 hours 
out of the hundred, and velocities between lo and 14 
miles in the hour are met with during 28-4 per cent, of 
the time. Higlier velocities than these occur less fre- 
quently, and during every hundred hours the wind blows 
at a greater velocity than 45 miles only during three- 
quarters of an hour. 
