Excerpt from The Progress of the Development of the Law of Storms, and of the Variable Winds, With the Practical Application of the Subject to NavigationThe object of this volume is to show, the progress made in the development of the Law of Storms, and to point out how the same law accounts for variable winds, and for many of those changes of the wind which, until recently, have hamed explanation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.