Excerpt from An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms: By Means of Facts, Arranged According to Place and Time, and Hence to Point Out a Cause for the Variable Winds, With the View to Practical Use in Navigation On Storms in High Latitudes - Captain King's Sailing Directions for Terra del Fuego. - The cause of the Barometer falling with a Northerly Wind, and rising with a Southerly in the Southern Hemisphere, ex plained - Easterly Storms in Ireland and Westerly of the Coasts of Portugal, in the middle of Feb., 1838. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.