barometry

Updated: May 15, 2025

Soaking through this, the water escaped by the break in the strata at the arch of the Fault Finder. But who had ever passed back against the current of the earth's barometry, from the spa to the reservoir, like Andrew Waples, of Horntown, Eastern Shore of Virginia? He felt a mighty vanity overwhelm him to get recognition of some kind from Bellydown, who disdained even thunder for a language.

George Alfred Townsend - Tales of the Chesapeake