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and was also found in the ertremely violent hurricane of Dec. 
-12th, 1844, in the Eastern Atlantic, in which two of the New 
York packet ships were lost by foundering; a fact unexampled 
in the history of our navigation. But such southeastern course 
in a great storm of the northern hemisphere, so far as I know, has 
not yet been established. 
It has been shown by Minne and others that several of the Brit- 
ish storms have pursued a northeasterly course, in their progress 
from lower latitudes, and that their rotative action was from right 
to left, €), as in the North American gales. In order to obtain a 
more definite and correct estimate of the progression and extended 
relations of the European storms above noticed, it would be prop- 
er to examine observations made at Madeira and the Azores, in 
connexion with such other geographical data as might be obtain- 
ed by patient inquiry.* 
We next proceed to a review of the phenomena of the Cuba 
hurricane and its prelusive storm, while in progress from the 
shores of Central America to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and New- 
oun 
Arr. IIlL—Description of a new Fossil Fish, from the Pale- 
ozoic Rocks of Indiana; by J. G. Norwoon, M. D., and D. D. 
Owen, M. D. 
Wrrutn a few months a very interesting discovery of a fossil 
fish has been made fifteen miles N. W. of Madison, Jefferson 
county, Indiana, in the rock forming the bed of Lewis’s creek, a 
branch of the Muskatatac river. 
Unfortunately, before the specimen came under our inspection, 
it had suffered greatly from thoughtless mutilation, while in the 
hands of the quarryman, which renders it difficult to give a satis- 
factory description of this remarkable fossil. 
* T.C. Hunt, Esq., the British Consul at the Azores, has been Sichecsbie it in 
deavors to secure good observations at these islands and Madeira; where 
ed to Col. Reip and to Consul General Hunr for valuable records and communi- 
cations on the meteorology of those islands, of an earlier date than the storms now 
under consideration. 
