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rge extent of water before they reach the coasts of the United States.
During the whole of this travel, these thirsty winds are drinking their fill from the sea, and by the time they reach Portland or Boston, they are heavily laden with moisture, which they now begin to let down again upon the land.
Hence, those long, gloomy, rainy, rheumatic, easterly storms, that prevail along our coast in the fall and winter months.
The reader has now only to take up the west wind, as it leaves the Pacific Ocean, as a wet wind, and follow it across the American continent, and see how dry the mountains wring it before it reaches the Atlantic, to see why it should bring us fair weather.
The change was very curious to us at first, until we became a little used to it.
Another change was quite remarkable, and that was the great difference in temperature which we experienced with reference to latitude.
Here we were, in midwinter, or near it, off the south coast of Spain, in latitude 36°, nearly t
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We were quite surprised to find so much bad weather in the parallel, on which we were crossing the Atlantic.
I had purposely chosen this parallel, that my little cock-boat of a ship might not be knocked in pieces, by the storms of the North Atlantic, and yet the reader has seen how roughly we have been handled.
Nor were the fates more propitious for the next few days.
Gale followed gale, with angry skies, and cloud and rain; there sometimes being lightning around the entire horizon, wie basement, is taken thence by the air, and distributed all over the rooms.
Now, to compare small things with great, we have, in the warm waters which are confined in the Gulf of Mexico, just such a heating apparatus for Great Britain, the North Atlantic, and Western Europe.
The furnace is the torrid zone; the Mexican Gulf arid Caribbean Sea are the caldrons; the Gulf Stream is the conducting-pipe.
From the Grand Banks of New Foundland to the shores of Europe is the basement—the hot-air cha
