The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217282154
Paperback|9780217282154
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Vicissitudes of winds and weather on this coast, which do not conform to the foregoing specifications, are more frequent in April, May, and June, than in other months. Easterly or southerly winds, under which the barometer rises or maintains its elevation, are not of a gyratory or stormy character; hut such winds frequently terminate in the falling of the barometer, and the usual phenomena of an eastern storm. The typhons and storms of the China Sea and eastern coast of Asia, appear to be similar in character to the hurricanes of the West Indies, and the storms of this coast, when prevailing in the same latitudes. There is reason to believe, that the great circuits of wind, of which the trade winds form an integral part, are nearly uniform in all the great oceanic basins, and that the course of these circuits, and of the stormy gyrations which they may contain, is, in the southern hemisphere, in a counter direction to those north of the equator, producing a corresponding difference in the general phases of storms and winds in the two hemispheres.-?Amer. Jo/urn, of Science and Arts, vol. xxv. No. I. p. 114. Critical Notices of various Organic Remains hitherto discovered in North America. By Richard Harlan, M. D. (Concluded from last Number.) ORDER SAURIA. Genus Cbocodilus, Cuv. C. macrorhyncus, Harlan. Journ. of the Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Philada. vol. iv. p. 15, pi. 1. Several fine specimens of the jaw, teeth, vertebra?, andc. of an extinct fossil species of crocodile from the New Jersey marl- pits, are contained in the Cab. of Ac. Nat. Sciences; the most perfect of these is described and figured as above referred to. It consists of the dental bone of the right side, in a good state of preservation, perfectly fossilized, or impregnated with iron, so abunda...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217282154 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217282156 |
| Weight | 1.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 364 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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