GALES OF THE ATLANTIC.

Lieutenant Maury has, in a series of charts of the North and South

Atlantic, exhibited, by means of colours, the prevalence of Gales

over the more stormy parts of the oceans for each month in the year.

One colour shows the region in which there is a gale every six days;

another colour every six to ten days; another every ten to fourteen

days: and there is a separate chart for each month and each ocean.

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