Excerpt from The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 41: January-June, 1896 Cur spirent venti, cur term dehiscat, Cur mare turgescat, pelago cur tantus amarot, Cur caput obscura Phoebus ferrugine condat, Quid toties diros eogat flagrare cometas. 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.