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Poverty - by James Platt

are the safest; but the captains of most ships make for some port or safe anchorage to ride out the storm, and if they part with their anchor they hoist a signal of distress, and the nearest lifeboat station, on receiving the signal, man their lifeboat and launch.

"Through the wild surf they cleave their way,
Lost in the foam, nor know dismay,
For they go the crew to save."

Now comes the question, What is the wind? And we reply: Wind is air in motion, and to measure its speed or velocity, an instrument has been invented called an anemometer, which not only tells us its speed but its pressure. Seven miles an hour is called a "gentle air," fourteen miles " a light breeze," twenty-one "a good steady breeze," forty miles " a gale," sixty miles " a heavy storm," eighty to a hundred " a hurricane sweeping all before it."

The pressure of wind the speed of which is five miles an hour is two ounces on a square foot, gradually increasing until the pressure is fifty pounds, or a hurricane speed of eighty to a hundred miles an hour. In the great storm that passed over London