Hamilton, William John: Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: with some account of their antiquities and geology ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1842)

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PHENOMENA OF WIND.

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is certainly too far inland to feel the effects of the Inbat of
Smyrna, which blows regularly from the east dnring the
afternoon. Can it be owing to the rarefaction and expan-
sion of the air, produced by the intense reflection of the sun's
rays from the white chalky soil of Asia Minor ?* This is
probably the cause of the mirage which I there saw on so
large a scale. Or can it be in any way connected with the
diurnal motion of the earth, which it seems to follow ?

* See Prout's Bridgewater Treatise, p. 268.