Ciba Hurricine of Octobe, 144. 335 
marked on the chart. But we have no evidence of the prevalence 
of a storm in this region at that period, other than appears in our 
recitals. 
The accounts now to be exhibited will serve to determine the 
route, character, extent, and progression of this memorable hur- 
ricane, and of the barometric depression and the expanded storm 
which preceded it. The principal facts which these accounts 
afford, have been first duly noted geographically, upon a large 
marine chart; in process of which it became apparent that the 
chief violence of the gale was exhibited along the’more central 
portions of the track. It was found, also, that a direct line drawn 
from the island of Ruatan, on the coast of Honduras, in the di- 
rection of N. 40° E., crossing Cuba, Sable Island and Newfound- 
land, would bisect the area of violence throughout this distance. 
It likewise appeared, on farther inspection, that by changing this 
line to one slightly curved, by bending its central portion slightly 
towards Cape Hatteras and its extremities in the opposite diree- 
tion, it would be found to divide very nearly, that portion of the 
track in which the winds set in from the southeastern quarter and° 
veered by the south to the westward, from that other portion of 
the storm’s path in which its winds commenced from the eastern 
or northeastern quarter and veered by the north to the northwest- 
ern quarter. This line is therefore adopted on the annexed chart, 
(chart IV,) as indicating, with approximate accuracy, the route 
pursued by the axis of the gale, and will be called the azis line. 
This axis line is supposed to intersect the 20th parallel of lati- 
tude near lon. 83°,—crosses Cuba to the eastward of Matanzas, 
passes near Orange Key,—near the west point of Abaco,—ainter- 
sects parallel 30° near lon. 75° 15’,—par. 40° near lon. 65°,—par. 
45° near lon. 58° 30’, and par. 50° near lon. 50° 40’. Lines are 
also drawn at the distance of sixty miles on each side of the axis 
line, as approximating a center path of one hundred and twenty 
miles in width ; also at distances of two hundred and four hundred - 
miles, on each side of the axis line, for the general purposes of 
reference, in scanning the observations. The supposed distances 
of the several vessels, or places of observation, from the axis of 
the gale, when nearest the same, will be stated in miles, sixty nine 
to adegree of the meridian,—with the initials, R. if to the right, 
and L. if to the left of the axis line. 
Our limits do not allow the printing of the several logs and 
meteorological reports at full length and in their tabular forms ; 
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