The reader will remember that this perpetual East Wind blows _from_ the African _to_ the American Continent;--any vessel, therefore, going _to_ the Western Hemisphere (within the degrees specified) with its sails set,--square before the wind, and its rudder secured on its centre,--the ship would then reach America (tempests excepted) without a single seaman or pilot to man or steer the vessel: and as a consequence, therefore, any ship _from_ America to Europe or Africa,--or from India, having doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and coasting along the western coast of Africa (and being within the 60 degrees), would _meet_ that East-Wind,--and would have to encounter what is technically called "a head wind,"--and consequently be in great danger of being "broken in the midst of the Seas" and there foundering; and especially in crossing in the line of the Equator; for directly over that line is the Sun nearest to the Globe,--varying (of course) according to the seasonal changes. This constant current of air,--this Boræan Mercury, capped and heeled with wings of Light,--passes from Africa over the broad Atlantic,--crossing the Continent of America and the great Pacific, he pursues his faithful flight over the vast lands of China, Australia, and Hindoostan,--is borne across the waters of the Indian Ocean, the Sea of Oman and the Gulf of Persia; the sands of Arabia, and the wall-divided sea of Israel; avoiding Europe and the Mediterranean, he reaches his fiery and cradled-home on Afric's burning deserts; but no cessation is here given to his perpetual course, his energies are but renewed, and on he speeds,--his "royal progress," commenced at Creation's birth, and must continue until Nature ceases,--the glorious Sun his mighty Parent,--Light itself his swift-speeding herald,--the Breeze, Gale, Storm, and Hurricane his children and attendants,--the golden eyes of Heaven, with their princely North-star, the witnesses of his constancy,--Earth and Ocean his grand and gorgeous kingdoms,--the central line of the entire Globe, and for two thousand miles on either side, his broad and majestic pathway! Man, his only opponent;--his only conqueror,--Science,--the imaged mind of that GOD, who in the Eden of the Universe planted the undying Trees of Knowledge and of Life. SECTION II. A SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE "EAST-WIND," AND OF THE MEANS FOR ACCOMPLISHING THE VOYAGE, &c.