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It also explains why rain that comes from the south, and the first rains of autumn, are brackish. The south is Thomas Vanek Jersey the warmest of Storm Sp Yd winds and it blows from dry and hot regions. Hence it carries little moist vapour and that is why it is hot. (It makes no difference even if this is not its true character and it is originally a cold wind, for it becomes warm on its way by incorporating with itself a great quantity of dry evaporation from the places it passes over.) The north wind, on the other hand, comb ing from moist regions, is full of vapour and therefore cold. It is dry in our part of the world because it drives the clouds away before it, but in the south it is rainy; just as the south is a dry wind in Libya. So the south wind New Jersey Devils Jersey charges the rain that falls with a great quantity of this stuff. Autumn rain is brackish because the heaviest water must fall first; so that that which contains the greatest quantity Adam Oates Jersey of this kind of earth descends quickest.
This, too, is why the sea is warm. Everything that has been exposed to fire contains heat potentially, as we see in the case of lye and ashes and the dry and liquid excreta of animals. Indeed those animals which are hottest in Canada Goose Livigno Parka the belly have the hottest excreta.
The action of this cause is continually making the sea more salt, Ryan Ellis Jersey but some part of its saltness is always being drawn up with the sweet water. This is less than the sweet water in UGG Classic Tall the same ratio Mike Smith Jersey in which the salt and brackish element in rain is less than the sweet, and so the saltness of the sea remains constant on the whole. Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt Shawn Matthias Jersey water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour. But this subject must be considered Bags on another more suitable occasion.
For the present let us say this. The sea is there and some of Martin Brodeur Jersey it is continually being drawn up and becoming sweet; this returns from above with the rain. But it Nike Air Max 98 is now different from what it was when it was drawn up, and its weight makes it sink below the sweet water. This process prevents the sea, as it does rivers, from drying up except from local causes (this must happen to sea and rivers alike). On the other hand the parts neither of the earth nor of the sea remain constant but only their whole bulk. For the same thing is true of the earth as of the sea: some of it is carried up and some comes down with the rain, and both that which remains on the surface and that which comes down again change their situations.
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