both north and south of the equator; while at other places well within the tropics, and even close to the line, totally different winds prevail.

It is only in the open parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans that the true Trade-winds blow.

In the Indian and China seas, and in many other portions of the great tropical belt, periodical winds, called Monsoons, are found.

These shifting Trades exact the closest study from the practical navigator, in consequence of their extensive variety and seeming complication.

But they are not less deserving the attention of merely curious inquirers, from the beautiful manner in which these modifications of the regular breezes obey the same general laws which direct the grand phenomena of the Trades.