ALBERT

b. 1605, d, 1691; gen, teh landscape painter of great ex- | mos! ce. Many pictures by him are in the| (C} nal Gallery, London, gran 3'ELE (e-le), was the Phrygian | the! who personiiicd the fruitfulne | out | } carth, and was worshipped as the | Wal + of en Jeo Rhea is the — — nm ogy, have { cally the same sealife and the; (C] powers a igned to them. who SLING. ‘This mode of locomotion | 60 1 a ed through many changes since | for | tys when the “ dandy-horse,” a two- | of li! ed structure propelled by pushing | conc round alternately with pat foot, | popt ied material for satire to Cruikshank | foun is contemporaries. Pedals fixed to | best s connected with the back wheel; Cy} introduced about 1840. In the | tion esbaker” of 1866 the pedals were | cian red to turn the front wheel. The/ by | laction of rubber tyres, some years | whic rendered the latter instrument of | tall.’ ¢ leas terrible, and with the adoption | that ¢ large fore wheel and a amall back; Oj rcling was made moderately pleasant. | Diar Cortis, in 1882, travelled more than | the les in an hour on a machine of the | she type. In 1885 the Starley ‘* Rover,” | born consisting of two wheels of | Delc diameter, and driven by a chain | sam g@ over s gear wheel, revolutionised C3 g, and made it po ible for persons | 200; arly all ages and of either sex to} He ) pleasure from the pastime. The/ from pal improvements in the modern } poor with the dates of their introduction, | Afte: follows: Steel wire tension spokes, | owin ball bearings, 1877; J. B. Dunlop’s | Emr fon of pneumatic tyres, 1888; the | coun wheel,” 1901, auth —_—_—* ae = in eeeel, two | othe curren © atmosphere, a it of echadr ant aet ocuuearion ot ae. The various meetings and cro ' pres Cyr. 11 of these currents cat we eddies, which tircular or spiral, and seldom le than miles in diameter. Such eddies or ing currents of air are named cyclones, thin them the barometric preseuro pw, whilst ontaide the pre ure is high. lowest barometrical reading occurs he centre of the ote or cyclonic ie gies eta dceplae eee — i e atmosp pre ure. to places where it is low; bat the re of the cyclone is comparatively 1, the full force of the wind being felt re the barometric differences are most ked. A violent east wind, for instance, irs whenever the barometer stands in Norway and low on the east coast eid The term anti-cyclone is fed to the belt of high pre ore surding tho cyclonic area, As the et barometrical readings indicate the re of the cyclone, so the highest ings mark the locality of the anti one. [s. 116]