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CHAP. II - SOUTH-WEST ALARM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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Quietly we had retired to rest on the night of July 17th; and after a day so fully occupied, slept soundly enough, little thinking of the morrow; but the morrow came in due course, and proved quite able to take care of itself, and establish its own claims to attention. At an early hour, the shaking and shivering of the tent, and the noise of wind increasing every moment, awoke us. We went out, and lo! the direction of the gale was S.W.; the threatened, and the promised, return current from the Equator, had at last arrived.

If we must live in a wind, by all means let it be the S.W., and not the N.E., that effete, unwholesome, used up, polar stream. As to the chemical constitution and sanitary qualities of the two winds there could be no comparison between them; but then, which was likely to do its spiriting most violently? We feared, after all, the south-west; because the heights were its proper province in these latitudes.

Peering into the wind's eye, we could discover little to guide us as to what was coming; the sky was clear and blue, as usual; all the country below the level of 5000 feet was covered in by the stratum of N.E, cloud, that spread out over the sea as well, and this was also its wont; again, all the country, craters, and peaks, above 5000 feet of elevation, appeared as dry, and as hard in outline as ever.

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Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment
Or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds
, pp. 110 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1858

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