OF THE DIRECTION AND FORCE OF THE WIND. 



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The result is in favor of the direct motion of not quite a circumference. The 

 result deduced for Baffin Bay agrees with this within the limit of uncertainty of 

 the final value itself, and both indicate that the law of rotation probably does not 

 hold good for these high latitudes. 



Occurrence and Duration of Storms. — The following table contains the date, 

 duration, and direction (true), of all storms experienced between the dates of the 

 record. In each case the intensity rises to 8 (of the scale) or beyond it, and there 

 are at least two consecutive entries of this or a higher number ; in other words, 

 gusts of wind blowing for less than three hours are not noted. 



Direction and changes. 



E. S. E. to S. S. E. and S. E. 



E. X. E. to E. S. E. 



N. W. to W. 



N.W. 



N. W. 



S. to S. W., S. E., and S. S. E. 



X. E. to S. E., S., S. W., and S. S. W. 



W. to N. W. 



N. W. to W. N. W. 



N. W. 



N. N. W. 



N. N. W. to W. N. W. 



N. N. W. 



N.W. to N. N.W. and N.W. 



N. 



N. W. to N. N. W. and X. W. 



S. E. 



N. E. to S. S. W., S., and 8. W. 



S. E. 



N. to N. W. and N. N. W. 



N. to N. W. 



X. W. 



N. 



S. S. E. to S., N. N. W. and N. W. 



N. E. 



E. S. E. to E. 



* Indicates storms in which the direction of the wind is completely reversed ; they belong to the rotatory storms 

 or cyclones. Two of these turn from the N. E. to the S. W., and the third from the S. E. to the N. W. 

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