The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 CLIMATE OF AEGENTINA. 393 to these south-eastern squalls, which are nearly always accompanied by heavy rains. Here also the less dangerous pan7pero, or pampas wind, blows with equal violence from south-west to north-east across the central plains, reaching at times as far as and beyond Cape Frio on the Brazilian coast. This pure, dry, and salubrious Fig. 161.—Closed Basins of Argentina. Scale 1 : 20,000,000. =. 620 Miles. wind lasts sometimes only a few hours, at others several days. But on th
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 CLIMATE OF AEGENTINA. 393 to these south-eastern squalls, which are nearly always accompanied by heavy rains. Here also the less dangerous pan7pero, or pampas wind, blows with equal violence from south-west to north-east across the central plains, reaching at times as far as and beyond Cape Frio on the Brazilian coast. This pure, dry, and salubrious Fig. 161.—Closed Basins of Argentina. Scale 1 : 20,000,000. =. 620 Miles. wind lasts sometimes only a few hours, at others several days. But on the whole, the climate of these coastlands is more equable, and scarcely ever exposed tr» the intolerable heats, which are felt, especially in calm weather, in the inland '•' Sa- haras.' In the conflict between the equatorial and polar currents, the former neaily
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