362 ivir ReSfield oji Hie Lain of Storms. 



been witbin the central lull of the storm, which reached Boston at 7 p. m., 

 and around which the wide spread annulus of wind, which forms the true 

 gale, appears to have been blowing with its full power. The lighter 

 winds within the central lull, in many cases, conform more or less to the 

 course of the storm, which would cause the wind to be south-westerly. 

 In what follows, therefore, no stress will be laid ujion tlie direction of 

 these lighter winds in the centre of the storm. 



" 4. At Provincetown, near the N. extremity of Cape Cod, the gale 

 was most severe from 11 to 4 p.m., on Sunday; its direction, by collat- 

 ino- the accounts, would appear to have been from E.SE. During the 

 night following, the wind is stated to have been moderate and all round 

 the compass. This wa^ the central lull, as the storm was renewed on the 

 following morning, as well as at the above-mentioned places. 



" 6. Captain Slcmmer of the brig Columbus, in his detailed and sea- 

 man-like account, states, that on Sundaj- at 2 p. m. he made Sandwich, on 

 the west side of Barnstaple or Cape Cod Bay, the wind blowing a hurri- 

 cane from E.SE. The weather lighting up afterwards, he ran into Ply- 

 mouth. The direction of wind at sunset, after the lull, is not given us. 



" 6. A published letter from Gloucenter, north-eastern extremity of 

 Massachusetts Bay, dated on Sundaj' night, says : ' We have experienced 

 a most disastrous gale of wind here to-day from E.SE., — the rain con- 

 tinues to pour in torrents, and the gale has not abated any.' 



•' 7. At Salem, fifteen miles from Boston, according to the Salem Re- 

 o-ister, ' During the day, at intervals, the wind blew with tremendous 

 force from the eastward, and the rain fell in torrents.' 



" 8. At Newburiiport, thirty miles N.NE, from Boston, according to 

 the Newburj'port Herald, the storm commenced on Sunday morning, 

 and ' from ten to twelve o'clock on Sunday night, the wind, which had 

 shifted a point or two more to the NE., blew a perfect hurricane.' 



" 9. At Portsmouth, iV. H., some sixty miles N.NE. of Boston, in the 

 meteorological journal published at that place, we find the wind recorded 

 during the day at east, with snow and rain. In a Portsmouth paper this 

 storm is styled a ' heavy NE. gale.' 



'• 10. At Portland, Me., as appears from a valuable sketch just pub* 

 lished by the keeper of the observatory, the wind at 11 a. m. ou the 15th 

 was ' east, with heavy rain; p. m, E. by S., gale still continued; in tho 

 evening, wind shifted to NE.' &c. 



" 11. At Nashua, N, H., on the Merimac, as wc are informed by the 

 Nashua Telegraph, ' the storm of the loth was from NE.' All our in- 

 formation leads to the conclusion that this comprises the close of that 

 day. 



" 12. At Boston, the Atlas saj's, on Sunday at 2 p. m., it • commenced 

 raining with a violent gale from the NE., which lasted till 7 p. m.' The 

 Mercantile Journal says,—' the wind blew with great fury from the east-i 

 ward, and in the evening for several hours it increased to a hurricane.' 

 The Daily Times says, — it commenced raining about 2 p. m., ' with a 



