ections may be subdivided indefinitely.
Classed by its directions, the wind is incalculable; classed by its
kinds, it is infinite. Homer himself would have shrunk from the task of
enumerating them.

The polar current encounters the tropical current. Heat and cold are
thus combined; the equilibrium is distributed by a shock, the wave of
wind issues forth and is distended, scattered and broken up in every
direction in fierce streams. The dispersion of the gusts shakes the
streaming locks of the wind upon the four corners of the horizon.

All the winds which blow are there. The wind of the Gulf Stream, which
disgorges the great fogs of Newfoundland; the wind of Peru, in the
region of silent heavens, where no man ever heard the thunder roar; the
wind of Nova Scotia, where flies the great auk (_Alca impennis_) with
his furrowed beak; the iron whirlwinds of the Chinese seas; the wind of
Mozambique, which destroys the canoes and junks; the electric wind,
which the people of Japan denounce by the beating of a gong; the African
wind, which blows between Table Mountain and the Devil's Peak, where it
gains its liberty; the currents of the equator, which pass over the
trade winds, describing a parabola, the summit of which is always to the
west; the Plutonian wind, which issues from craters, the terrible breath
of flames; the singular wind peculiar to the volcano Awa, which
occasions a perpetual olive tint in the north; the Java monsoon, against
which the people construct those casemates known as hurricane houses;
the branching north winds called by the English "Bush winds;" the curved
squalls of the Straits of Malacca, observed by Horsburgh; the powerful
south-west wind, called Pampero in Chili, and Rebojo at Buenos Ayres,
which carries the great condor out to sea, and saves him from the pit
where the Indian, concealed under a bullock-hide newly stripped,
watches for him, lying on his back and bending his great bow with his
feet; the chemical wind, which, according to Lemery, produces
thunder-bolts from the clouds; the Harmattan of the Caffres; the Polar
snow-driver, which harnesses itself to the everlasting icebergs; the
wind of the Gulf of Bengal, which sweeps over a continent to pillage the
triangular town of wooden booths at Nijni-Novogorod, in which is held
the great fair of Asia; the wind of the Cordilleras, agitator of great
waves and forests; the wind of the Australian Archipelago, where the
bee-hunters take the wild hive