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derived from the meteorological journals of scientific and intelli- 
gent observers, or from the log-books of vessels exposed to the 
storm; and I take this occasion to offer my thanks to the gen- 
tlemen who have so kindly furnished me with their observations. 
The position assumed for the axis of the gale, at noon, should, 
perhaps, be nearly in line with the position of the ship’ ‘Morrison 
and Cape Cod Bay ; at which places the wind was then blowing 
from opposite points of the compass, but, as may be seen; notin 
actually opposing directions. The Morrison was from China, 
bound to New York; and I have reason to believe that her posi- 
tion at noon may be safely relied on. The violence of the gale 
was here so great that the ship, as Iam informed, was lying to 
without canvass. This ship had encountered the western side 
of the gale, suddenly, at 7, A. M., and the sun shone chiefly un- 
obscured during the greater part of the day. 
The gale was severe over the entire surface comprised in the 
map, except, perhaps, on its extreme northern and northwestern 
portions, and excepting, also, the lighter winds which were ob- 
served near the apparent axis of the gale, in the region of Buz- 
zards’ and Cape Cod bays, &c., in the afternoon and evening. A 
very heavy fall of snow: accompanied the gale in the states of 
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 
Maine ; also, in some parts of New York and southern Vermont. 
Some snow also fell in the western and northern. parts of New 
York and Vermont, but attended with more moderate and varia- 
ble winds, chiefly from the north and west. 
The southwesterly and southerly winds, which connect the 
westerly with the southeasterly winds in the circuit of rotation, 
are found at Nantucket in the afternoon, by the farther advance 
of the stort and also in the log-books of anumber of vessels 
whose positions were eastward and southward of the ship Mortri- 
son, but beyond the limits of the map. 
The barometric minimum, as in other storms, appears to have 
hearly coincided, in its progress, with the apparent axis of the gale. 
My main object in collecting the observations contained in the 
subjoined schedule, has been to establish the course of the wind 
in the body or heart of the storm at a given time, and apart from 
all other considerations. Iam in possession, however, of more 
extended observations of this gale. Many of these appear to 
agree with some of the following characters or rary of action 
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