MONSOONS

are ordinary trade-winds which, instead blowing from the north tropic to the equator, are dragged round by the intense summer heat of some large area of land to the north of them, and blow S. w. anti-trades. The most regular M. are caused by the heating of Tibet in summer, and carry the main supplies of rain to India but they occur also off the Californian coast. There; are none south the equator because the area of land to water proportionately very small. The so-called ' N.E. Monsoon,’ which blows from Bengal to the Madras coast is the ordinary N.E. trade-wind. of Montagu, Lady Mary, the famous letter-writer, was bom in 1689, and died of cancer in 1762. She made a runaway marriage with Mr. Wortiey Montagu, and was the friend of Add is on, Congreve, Pope, etc. Her famous “Turkish Letters” were written while her husband was amba ador in Constantinople. She adopted the Turkish custom of inoculating her children for small-pox. ‘spoke’ Latin before he could speak French. He published the first two books of “ E ays ” in 1580, and the third in 1588. and shared Louis XIV. 's contaminating favour with Mdlle. de la Valli6re from 1668 to 1674, and monopolized it more or le from 1674 to 1679, when Madame de Main ten on—the nurse of four of her children by Louis—usurped her position with his majesty. and published his “ Lettres Per sanes” in 1721. The