Espy, James P. (James Pollard), 1785-1860, author · Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown · leaf 488
cut out a space very much larger than itself. This was probably the case also in that basin which Mr. Alison describes in the Teneriffe storm, as being six hundred yards in circumference, and thirty feet deep, with furrows cut in concentric circles. The stationary character of all these storms is… … Let a b and a c be two mountains, of moderate height, butting up against each other in the south west, and let the circle d e f represent the area of a storm moving along the line k i, from south west to north east. When the centre of the storm reaches the mountains the barometer will stand
