Excerpt from Physical Geography in Its Relation to the Prevailing Winds and Currents
This study of the nature, character, and effect of the prevailing winds of a country, and of the currents which wash its shores, is as much a part of its geography as is that of the outline of its coasts, or of the contour of its mountains. In its widest extent it not only brings us face to face with the ever fresh phenomena of Nature, and leads us to a closer acquaintance with the secrets of her power, but it sets forth much that is soundly and practically useful to the seaman. It has thus been fully recognised as a branch of Geographical Science not only by the Royal Geographical Society but by the Admiralty, although by a curious contradiction it has hitherto been assigned, almost exclusively, to Meteorology, or rather to that particular division of Meteorology which treats of the hydrostatic condition of the Atmosphere and the Ocean.
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