Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 597
hour. On reaching theislands they usually turn northward, skirt theSouth Atlantic States, and then vanish to thenortheastward as ordinary storms. They are ona large scale patterned after the little whirlwindsso often to be seen above any dusty road on hotdays. The sun heats the air above the road… … that, while these changes are extremely interest-ing, they probably have no great value in themajority of cases. He says: They are nervousreflexes, called forth by some disturbance of thefish, and may be of no more utility to the animal
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