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Updated: April 30, 2025

Though such disturbances are comparatively insignificant in the motions of the planets, yet in the weather they are often more important than the primary causes. The aggregate and permanent effect of all these disturbing causes, primary and secondary, is seen in that irregular distribution of climates, which the tortuous isothermal lines and the mottled raincharts illustrate.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858