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Show Four Months' Annual Hurricane. Iu tho antcont land or Sclstan, on tho borders of Persia and Afghanistan, an extraordinary wind blows In tho summer. It Is called tho "llad-l-sad o-blst o-blst roz," or wind of 120 days. Col. Hir Henry McMahon, a Hrltish explorer, explor-er, says of this wind: "It sets In at tho end ot May or tho mlddlo or Juno and blows with uppalllng violence vio-lence and with little or no cessation till about tho end or Soptember. It always blows from ono dlrectlun, a little lit-tle west or north, and teaches a velocity ve-locity of over 70 miles an hour." |