CHAPTER III.. Our Rivers Do Not Return From the North Atlantic--All Storms and

Our rivers do not return from the North Atlantic--All storms and showers move from the westward to the eastward--Seeming clouds seen moving from the eastward to the westward are scud--They are incidents of the storm, and not a necessary part of it--The storm clouds are above them, moving to the eastward--Occasions when this may be seen--Admitted facts prove it--Investigations prove it--May be known from analogy--From the fact that there is an aerial current pursuing the same course in which the storms originate--Character of this current--Its influence upon our country--Importance of a knowledge of its origin, cause, and the reciprocal action between it and the earth--To this end necessary to go down "to the chambers of the South" 43