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MONSOON
MONSOON, a name given to the periodical or trade-winds, which blow regularly in certain latitudes of the Indian ocean. They continue five or six months invariably in one direction, and then alter their course, and blow, during an equal space of time, from a different point of the compass with the same uniformity.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 197, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0873.html