26 On the prevailing Storms of the Atlantic Coast. 
In Lat. 39° 20’, Lon. 73° 30’, the gale blew from east-south-east 
to south-south-east, and continued eight hours. 
At New York, the gale was from north-east to east, and com- 
menced blowing with violence at 5, P. M.; continued with great fu- 
ry for three hours, and then changed to west. More damage was 
sustained in two hours than was ever before witnessed in the city, 
the wind increasing during the afternoon, and at sunset was a hurri- 
cane. At the time of low water, the wharves were overflowed, the 
water having risen thirteen feet in one hour. Previous to the setting — 
in of the gale, the wind was from south to south-east, but changed — 
to the north-east at the commencement of the storm, and blew with 
great fury till evening, and then shifted to the westward. 
At the quarantine, Staten-Island, the wind was reported as east- 
south-east. Other accounts fix it at east. 
At Bridgeport, Conn. the gale commenced violent at south-east, at 
6, P. M. and continued till 9, P. M.; then shifted to north-west, and 
iw till nearly 11, P. M. 
At New asiidod!, the gale was felt from 7, P. M. to 12 at night. 
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On the coast of Rhode Island, between Point Judith and Watch- — 
hill, gale from the south. 
At Middletown, Connecticut, violent from south-east for five hours. 
At Hartford, commenced heavy from south-east at 7, é 
At Springfield, Mass. violent from 9 to 12, P. M.; thes chee 
to the westwarc 
At N aphiatiptod: from south-east on the same evening. 
At Worcester, Mass. in the night, between the 3d and 4th of Sep 
tember. 
At Boston, the gale commenced at 10, P. M., but does not ap- 
pear to have been severe. At the time the storm was raging with 
its greatest fury at New York, the citizens of Boston were witnessing — 
the ascent of a balloon, and the aeronaut met with little or no wind. — 
The general course of this storm, northward of Cape Hatteras, of 
pears to have been from south-south-west to north-north-east, and © 
its further progress we are uninformed. 
It appears from the foregoing statement of facts, that this storm, — j 
previous to its reaching Long Island, extended but a moderate dis- ‘ 
tance inland, and that its influence seaward from the coast was al- — 
most equally limited ;—that, between these boundaries, it maintained — 
a regular progress along the coast, from a great distance towards the — 
south, and probably even from the neighborhood of the West-India — 
