But what _power_ impels the winds, which thus meet at these points? If they be impelled, is it consistent with the action of this power that the _winds_ it has _created_ and _controls_, should thus assume an _opposite "tendency,"_ and whirl away to the north-eastward, regardless of the power that originated and controls them? What must this "_tendency_" be, which thus _occasionally_ not only diverts the winds from the _usually regular course_ given them by their originating power, but increases their action, from gentle, ordinary winds, to hurricanes? Nay, which gives them a new, resistless gyratory and electric energy, increasing as the new, independent, supposed cyclonic organization moves off, "_integrally_," away from "the home of its many fathers," on a devastating journey towards the north pole? And, further, if all this were true as to the West Indies and Central America, what is to be said of the billions of other storms, originating on a thousand other portions of the earth's surface, and how are they to be accounted for, inasmuch as such other "meetings," "coming into each other," and "over-sliding," and "tendency to deflection," is not assumed to exist? These questions cannot be satisfactorily answered. The distinguished theorists are mistaken. The stratus-cloud does not over-lie or cover the storm. IT IS THE STORM. The winds beneath, whether surface or superimposed, are but its incidents, due to its static induction and attraction. Their _direction_ depends on the shape of the storm cloud, and its course of progression, and the susceptibility of the surface atmosphere in this direction or that, to its inductive and attractive influence. Their _force_ to its depth, its contiguity to the earth, and the intensity of its action; and the scud, are but patches of condensation, occasioned by the same inductive action which affects and attracts the surface current in which they form.