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HORSE LATITUDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 726 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORSE LATITUDES , the belts of calms and variable breezes at the polar edge of the N.E. and S.E. trades. According to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary two explanations have been given of the origin of the name: one that the See also:calm kills horses on a sailing See also:ship, the other that the name signifies the unruly and boisterous nature of these winds compared with the pleasant trades. The name is commonly applied to the permanent See also:belt of high atmospheric pressure which encircles the globe in 3o° to 35° from the See also:equator. HORSE-See also:MACKEREL, the name applied to a genus of fishes (Caranx) found in abundance in almost all temperate and especially in tropical seas. The designation " See also:cavalli," given to them by the See also:early Portuguese navigators, and often met with in the accounts of the adventures of the See also:buccaneers, is still in frequent use among the sailors of all nations. Some ninety different kinds are known—the See also:majority being wholesome See also:food, and some of the See also:species attaining a length of 3 ft. and more. The See also:fish to which the name horse-mackerel is applied in See also:Great See also:Britain is Caranx trachurus, distinguished by having the lateral See also:line in its whole length armed with large but narrow bony plates. Horse-mackerel are found singly on the See also:coast all the See also:year See also:round, but sometimes they congregate in shoals of many thousands. Although well-flavoured, they are much more frequently used for bait than for food. This species has a most extraordinary range, being found almost everywhere within the temperate and tropical zones of the See also:northern and See also:southern hemispheres.

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