Excerpt from Are There Equictial Storms?: Development of the Marine Barometer in American Waters The severe West Indian storms occurring about the time of the spring and autumnal equixes have long been the subject of investigation, and the early opinions have been handed down to the present time with many other sayings, like the St. Swithins Day fallacy, from the days of superstition and comparative igrance of the sciences. They are with us to some extent even at this day, but t of so marked a character r so broadcast as they were even fifty years ago. They cant stand the searchlight of investigation, r the analysis of these storms to a locality at or near the time of the equixes, for a long period of years. Our early education on this subject has doubt been the reason for entertaining opinions held for so many years. Being handed down from one generation to ather with but little thought of their causes, the subject engaged the attention of very few. The equictial gales, so called, were then accepted and recognized as regular visitors to our sea coast cities at stated intervals of the spring and autumn of the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.