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perplexing discrepancies. His work includes 31 daily charts 

 of the North Atlantic and a concluding synoptic-chart, while 

 his text presents us with a review of each daily chart in suc- 

 cession, followed by a series of chapters on the hurricane, 

 and conclusions that can be drawn from the study. 



He states that from the 1st to the 10th, the northeast 

 trade and southwest monsoon were often in close proximity 

 over that part of the sea which lies to the southwest of Cape 

 Verde. It seems most probable that the hurricane was form- 

 ing on the 12th in about 11 N. and 20 W. From that 

 time on, the track of the centre of the hurricane is occasion- 

 ally indicated until the 17th, from which date until the 25th 

 its track is very clear as it passed westward between the 

 West Indies and the Bermudas, and then turned northward, 

 and finally northeastward, near the southern coast of Nova 

 Scotia. On the 2Gth he concludes that the centre of the hur- 

 ricane was south of Newfoundland, but that it was broken in 

 force, and that contact with land broke up the great eddy, 

 which had shown no signs of breaking up so long as it was 

 over the open sea. From the 27th to the 31st there appear 

 areas of slight barometric depression between Labrador and 

 Europe, attended occasionally by strong gales but no hurri- 

 cane. By means of these depressions, which represent the 

 breaking-up of the hurricane, the meteorologist wonjd con- 

 tinue the track of the hurricane eastward to Great Britain; 

 but the practical seaman would say that the hurricane, as 

 such, died out in Newfoundland. He shows that had we tel- 

 egraphic communication with the Bermudas and St. Thomas, 

 timely warnings might have been sent to Nova Scotia and 

 the United States. The law according to which areas of low 

 pressure in Europe pass outside of, instead of advancing into, 

 areas of high pressure seems to have also prevailed in the 

 progress of this hurricane. 



The important question with regard to the direction of the 

 wind and the bearing of the centre of the hurricane is elu- 

 cidated by diagrams, and especially by measures made on 

 three different charts, and at distances from 100 to 800 miles 

 from the centre. On these charts the angle between the bear- 

 ing: of the hurricane-centre and the direction of the wind has 

 been carefully measured for 108 different ships' positions, 

 the average of all of which shows that the wind does not 



