The Athens Post

Professor Coffin, of Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, in an elaborate scientific paper, says that there exists in the Northern Hemisphere three great zones of wind, extending entirely around the earth, modified, and, in some cases, partially interrupted by the configuration and character of the surface. The first of these is the trade wind, near the equator, blowing, when uninterrupted, from Northeast to Southwest; this belt is interrupted, however, in the Atlantic ocean, near the coast of Africa, upon the Mediterranean sea, and also in Barbary by the actions of the Great Desert. The second is a belt of Westerly wind, near 2000 miles in breadth, between latitude 35 and 60 degrees North, and encircling the earth, the westerly direction being clearly defined in the middle of the belt, but gradually disappearing as we approach the limits on either side. North of this, there is another system of winds blowing southwardly, from high Northern latitudes, and gradually inclining towards the west as it moves into a latitude of greater Eastern velocity.