Excerpt from A New System of Meteorology, Designed for Schools and Private Students, Vol. 1: Descriptive and Explanatory of All the Facts, and Demonstrative of All the Causes and Laws of Atmospheric Phenomena The fearful nature and awful grandeur of clouds, rain, hail, snow, whirlwinds, tornadoes, thunder and lightning, forcibly im pressed me from my earliest childhood. Before attaining the age of four years, I inquired for their cause. My parents resolved these phenomena into the Ultimate Cause, God. Accepting this solution, I wished to know how he did it, and why he did it? Not receiving satisfactory answers to these questions, they became life problems to me. They had, and ever will have, such a fasci nation for me as to engross my entire attention when I am in their presence. While a lad of tender years, no cloud appeared above the hori zon without my scrutiny as to its aspects, and noting the changes in its form and color. After night, no thunder cloud loomed up in the sky without my watching, while in sight, the play of the lightning in its folds, and studying its structure in its strata and convolutions. 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 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.