Excerpt from The System of the Weather of the British Islands In this order of winter and summer; each class of the sea4 sons, by'ritself, and in the order 'of succession, as arranged in Table IV., the subject was investigated, until most of the laws which appeared to govern the elements by the seasons, were detected, and the whole prepared with a view to publica; tion; but before this could be accomplished, it occurred, that the annual sum of each weather year should be calculated, by put ting the sums of the winters and summers together, in case this disposition should contain some new rules; and on the averages of the East and West Winds being found, the order of succession of the great and small sums instantly gave the Cycle of 54 years, as explained in the course of the work. 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.