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Excerpt from Text-Book of Ocean Meteorology: Compiled From the Sailing Directories for the Oceans of the World In the course of delivering my annual series of Lectures on Ocean Meteorology, at the Royal Naval College, I have frequently been asked to recommend some Text-Book on the subject which - would give a comprehensive view of the various Winds and Currents of the Ocean, and which without, on the one hand, giving the details necessary for Sailing Directions, or, on the other hand, being a mere cram-book for examinations - should form a fitting introduction to this highly interesting and very important part of a Sailor's education. Finding that the information in the Admiralty Sailing Directions was scattered through too many volumes for easy reference, and that the information in Findlay's Directories was too voluminous to answer the purpose, I proposed to the Proprietors of the latter well-known Works that they should issue, in a small volume, certain selected portions of those larger Works, and to these I have added various Notes from my own Lectures. I have omitted almost all theoretical questions, and merely brought together material to illustrate what is the practical issue of the subject - the Art of making Passages from Port to Port. I hope that this Book may prove useful for the purpose designed - of attracting more attention towards a somewhat neglected but highly useful branch of Naval education. 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