CHAPTER IV.. The Trade Wind Region--Its Extent and Arrangements--Its Belt of

The trade wind region--Its extent and arrangements--Its belt of daily rains and movable character--The trade winds--The extra tropical belt of rains--Connection between them and their annual movements--The counter-trades--Their origin and situation--One of them constitutes our aerial current--It originates in the South Atlantic as a surface-trade--Anomalies of the trade wind region--Dry seasons--Humboldt's description of them--Exist where the surface trades are situated--The rainless countries-- Concentrated counter-trade--Monsoons--Received theory in relation to them a fallacy--Cause of the great central phenomena-- Calorific theory a fallacy--Land not hotter under the belt of rains, nor sea materially so--Theory should be abandoned 52