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Art. IL—On Three several Hurricanes of the American Seas 
and their relations to the Northers, so called, of the Gulf of 
Mexico and the Bay of Honduras, with Charts illustrating 
the same ; by W. C. Reprie.p. 
(Continued from p. 169.) ps 
Hurricane of the Honduras Sea, Cuba, and the Western At- 
lantic, in October, 1844. 
This remarkable storm, which I designate as the Cuba Hurri- 
cane, came from the direction of the Pacific Ocean and the re- 
gions of Central America. Tt appears to have entered upon the 
bay or sea of Honduras, which is the western arm of the Carib- 
bean sea, directly from the countries of Honduras, Poyais and 
Yucatan, on the 3d.and 4th of October. From the Honduras sea 
‘it passed over the island of Cuba, the southern part of Florida, 
and the Bahama Islands, and continued in a northeasterly course, 
to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the island of Newfoundland, 
with a rapidity of progress hitherto unknown in American storms. 
It swept, in its progress, the salient portions of the North Ameri- 
can continent on the one hand, and the eastern parts of Cuba 
and Newfoundland, together with Bermuda, on the other; while 
its pathway exhibited an amount of injury and destruction such 
as is rarely known in the annals of commerce. 
- Precursory Storm. On the 1st and 2d days of October, 
Cuba was visited with stormy weather, attended by an extensive 
and unusual fall of the barometer; and this depression of the 
barometer was mainly or partially continued after the gale had 
ceased, the weather remaining unsettled. I cannot trace, other- 
wise than barometrically, the progress of this prelusive storm on 
its departure from Cuba, except at Key West, and again in the 
higher latitudes ; as will be seen hereafter. It was included, evi- 
dently, in a vast gyrative influence which comprised both storms ; 
while the principal or most active vortex was developed in the 
subsequent hurricane. It will be found that the barometric de- 
pression of this earlier storm, continued to advance along the 
whole Atlantic coast of the United States, and over a wide ex- 
tent of adjacent country. The probable influence of this ad- 
vanced diminution of pressure, on the course and progression of 
the hurricane which followed, may be hereafter considered. 
Seconp Series, Vol. I, No. 3.—May, 1846. 
