202 On. the Courses of Hurricanes. 
which had been remarkable for their violence, and which were 
selected as illustrations of the general course and whirlwind char- 
acter of many other storms, ae to which — information — 
had-been obtained. 
The favorable attention with which fies’ statements have gen- 
erally been received, together with the spirit and professional zeal 
with which the subject has been discussed in the pages of the 
autical Magazine, have seemed to invite a more detailed exhibi- 
tion of the numerous facts which have claimed attention in the. 
progress of my inquiries. Being informed, however, that Lieut. 
Col. Reid, of the Royal Engineers, had engaged in the investiga- 
tion, with the design of publishing a more full exhibition of the 
facts than had yet been offered, I most willingly awaited the 
issue ; being fully persuaded, that whatever doubts or difficul- - 
ties Adiehit. remain with those who had not thoroughly exam- 
ined the subject, would not fail to be dispelled by his enterprising 
and- judicious labors. The highly valuable work of Col. Reid, 
on the law of storms, is now before me; and I cannot-but express 
my commendation of the talent and research by which he has so 
ably and satisfactorily exhibited the true natural system of humi- 
‘canes, and my acknowledgments, also; for the honorable and very 
: saeSoting manner in which he has noticed my previous labors-’ — 
The mass of evidence and the numerous illustrations exhibited 
by Col. Reid, have happily left but little for me to attempt on the 
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few of the topicswhich your anonymous corres 
your pages’: and whom, as the subject has now become more gen- 
erally interesting, your readers will hope to meet under his © own 
proper signature. e 
This writer appears, at an earlier period, to icon assumed the 
hypothesis. that the hurricanes of the inter-tropical latitudes origi- 
nate in the variables or calm latitudes, which border upon the 
exterior limit of the trade winds. But in the reports of Lieut. 
of H. M. Steam Packet Spey, and in other aca ge 
ent of his observations ; and it is owing chiefly; perhaps, to this cause, that 
several redundanci ies, and some suggestions on collateral points, require to be ex- 
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