CHAPTER VII.. Height of the Counter-Trade in Different Latitudes--Cause of the

Height of the counter-trade in different latitudes--Cause of the Calms of Cancer--Influence of mountains upon the counter-trade-- Reports of Herndon and Gibbon--Focus of precipitation in the extra-tropical belt north of its southern line--Evidences of this--The elevation of the counter-trade above the earth varies in the same latitude with the variations in the phenomena of the weather--Temperature of the counter-trade--Rain dust, its origin and indications--Volcanic ashes--How far they indicate its course of progression--Question whether there is an eastern progression of the body of the atmosphere above the machinery of distribution 179