Excerpt from Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean: Containing a Brief Account of the Winds, Weather, and Currents, Prevailing Therein According to the Most Experienced Authorities In order to consider the winds common to this ocean, we shall divide it into three regions: the first, that com prised between the parallels of 30 N orth and South latitudes; the second between the latitude of 30 South and the South pole; the third between 30 N orth and the N orth pole. We shall divide each of these twe last named regions into two zones: the temperate zone, ex tending from the parallel of 30 to and the frozen zone between the latitude of 60 and the poles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.