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from Salem, in Mafiachufetts, that were loft on Cape Cod 

 during the ftorm, related, after his efcape, that the weather, 

 on the dav of their failing, Sunday, Feb. 21, was remarkably 

 fine and favourable. Attun-fet they were about four leagues 

 from Cape Ann light-houfe, with a' light breeze from foutb- 

 eaft. After midnight the weather grew very threatening; 

 and at half paft two in the morning of the 22d the wind 

 veered to the north-eaft, and it f no wed fo faft that the (hips 

 could hardly difcern each other. The fhipwrecks during 

 this norm were numerous and dreadful. Many perfons were 

 frozen to death. Salem is diftant from Wafhington 499 

 miles, or 257 from New-York ; fo that this latter place is 

 about midwav between the two places. 



At Portland, in Maine, diftant 603 miles from Wafhing- 

 ton, the mow began between daylight and funrife. It was 

 obferved by young Mr. Vaughan, who was travelling on the 

 morning of the 22d. At 8 A. M. the wind blew violently. 



The norm began ft ill later at Hallowell, on the Kennebeck 

 river. This place is 683 miles from Wafhington. There 

 the fun rofe clear on the morning of the 22d. The air be- 

 came cloudy in about a quarter or an hour. The mow began 

 about eleven, and the ftorm had become furious within two 

 hours after. Profeflbr Waterhoufe and Benjamin Vaughan, 

 efq. have particularly attended to thefe curious meteorological 

 fafts. 



At Poughkeepfie, 82 miles north of New- York, and fitu- 

 ated beyond the firft range of mountains, the ftorm began 

 about four o'clock on the morning of the 22d. And at Al- 

 bany, 165 miles north of New- York, it did not begin until 

 a little before day-break on the morning of the 22d. 



At Providence (H.I.) Dr. Wheaton obferved the evening 

 of the 2 1 ft to be clear and pleafant. The watchmen informed 

 him " the weather changed before 12 o'clock, and continued 

 cloudy, with variable winds, until the violence of the ftorm 

 began, which was at half paft three on the morning of the 

 22d." Providence is 439 miles from Wafhington. 



Accounts from Charlefton (S. C.) ftate that it began there 

 on the 21ft, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. 

 The diftance of Charlefton from Wafhington is 550 miles. 

 By the newfpapers it appears to have been felt in the Bahama 

 iflands. 



It will be found, on calculation, that between Charlefton 

 and Cape Ann, along the coaft, this ftormy movement pro- 

 ceeded to windward at the rate of nearly one hundred miles 

 an hour: for, as it began at Charletton, fay at three o'clock, 

 at New- York at eleven, and off Cape Ann at two the next 



morning, 



