degrees on either side of the Equator, thus forming by the laws of Nature a perpetual East-Wind encircling one hemisphere (and a West-Wind the other), and spreading to the width of 3600 miles around the entire Globe! This fact enables us to elucidate a portion of Scripture having reference to the celebrated Passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites, which will be investigated in the next volume. The principle of nature established in its law of attracting air even towards a partial vacuum, be it created by natural or artificial means of heat (for the quality of the result is the same) has been shewn to prove, that the Earth revolving one way, (West to East) and the current of air rushing another, having the Sun as its source of attraction, must of a necessity produce the constant East-Wind. This secret of Nature instantly unfolds why the great Ocean on the _Western_ coast of America is truly named _Pacific_, when compared to the tempests of the Atlantic. As thus:--the hot sands of Africa for man adjunct power to the Sun in creating an increased yet partial vacuum,--the winds, therefore, are attracted with doubled quantity on Africa,--thence the Simooms; but being compelled by Nature's law to follow (as it were) to the Sun, the quantity consequently drawn from Africa to its immediate neighbour, the Atlantic, is in the ratio of acquisition at the original source, Africa; but when on the Atlantic, the waters--not possessing the sand-heat, and thence losing the concentration--disperse the mass of storm-winds, and they pass over the Atlantic, gradually losing their force as they are removed from Africa; and in crossing over the American Continent, having no longer the hot sands to regenerate the increased vacuum, the East-Wind reaches the great Ocean truly in a _Pacific_ state; and so continues around the Globe, until it comes within the influence of the furnace sands, when it again commences its impetuous course, and thence on to the Atlantic. The name--_Pacific Ocean_, was given from an absolute truth--an _effect_,--not from an analysis of the _cause_,--we humbly submit that the latter is now produced. Upon the same principle, the burning sands of Arabia, which are unendurable during the day, owing to the excessive heat contained,--possess at night the cool and reviving air;--it does not so much pass over the desert (in the absence of the Sun) as it is actually _drawn down vertically upon the sands_, like an avalanche;--for the cold air of the upper region, upon feeling the effects, and attraction of the substratum of heat, must follow the established principle,--as, also, the greater weight of the cold air follows the law of gravitation.