| SO much afflicted with the au-nott, 
j l ’ mdi that lie must compose, an d *££ 
I composition must he published £ 
appear to me, Messrs. Editors, that he is 
t re ?\e° Uni t ,°. sefect subjects not en- 
T lll3 , ovv “ C0ln prehension,! 
i S V fl , r , to conform to the established 
. 0 P 1 1 osophising, as to render him- 
^e*t mtelhgdile if not conclusive. 
} 1 UVd y Rot R e charged with acting 
unfairly towards the captain, for whose 
bravery and patriotism 1 have the highest 
regard, I shall here quote verbatim” one 
I sentence from his last essay, which may 
, oc considered a fair specimen of his style, 
I R ota to manner and matter. 
1 * • t but. the northwestwardly winds are fren- 
I erui, y sucked, either from without the polar 
i °P fc mngol one or other of the more narrow rerial 
ipheres^tbove us, or, out of some one or more 
Vs of die inner spheres, or from mid- 
r iw #» this and the next inner sphere, or 
spnei 
hove 
cav 
! way 
from all; and that the northeast- 
! waredy winds are protruded from the concave 
f SUI bice of this sphere, (asare th e S K, monsoons, 
which prevail most in India; because the great¬ 
er half of the south polar opening lies between 
the south axis and India, owing to the axis not 
being jii the centre of the opening, and because 
the south pole is more open than "the nortl 
S W. wind is probably often sucked (bv 
tial vacuum northwards continuously vvij^iinUhe 
from the concave of an aerial _ 
or from midrange between such con- 
the earth’s surface, as their natural ra- 
rif/ctioif greutkeondensation, and consequent 
heat, indicutexlheir hollow whistling sound in¬ 
dicates that suckedi-mwingto the rota¬ 
tion of ilufjmSlfo the easfcf\he action of the 
suction winJft spirally round the earth towards 
the equator, from either pole, in 
the progress of which ^ftm may bt 
almost as simultaneous from end ^reS,asthat of 
the tides, or somewhat as water ~ 
trough, when one end is depress^%/thi?'a 
may pass over or through the lm 
equator.” 
Now if this be any thing but jargon 
doubly unintelligible, I shall not hesitate 
to acknowledge my ignorance of the phi¬ 
losophy -of language and nature, and will 
cheerfully ad mit that the forgoing remarks 
vastly recoil upon their author. 
; J CLEON. 
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