Excerpt from On the Atmospheric Changes Which Produce Rain, Wind, Storms: And the Fluctuations of the Barometer For many years meteorological phenomena, in Lancashire and its neighbourhood, had engaged a portion of my attention. The winter of 1837-8 I passed in Rome and Naples, where my thoughts were directed to the climate of those places and, on my return to Eng land, I determined to make inquiries into the causes which produce the atmospheric peculiarities of those parts. What I met with in books, written professedly on meteorology, appeared obscure and unsatisfactory, and I resolved to employ a portion of my leisure in collecting, from travellers, facts likely to throw some light on the subject, and particularly to endeavour to trace the laws of nature in the department of meteorology, where she operates on a large scale. 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.