252 § Hurricanein New England, September, 1815. 
56. The following facts appear to me to be established by the 
foregoing accounts. 
ist. The hurricane commenced in the West Indies, and moved 
northward at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour. 
2d. Its course from St. Barts was about W. N. W. to Torks 
Island, and thence to Boston (nearly on the same meridian) it~ 
was a curve convex to the west. (See account of Schr. Sally, 
lat. 37°, lon. 76°, for the most western point of the curve.) 
3d. Previous to the arrival of the hurricane in New England, 
a N. E. storm had prevailed along the Atlantic coast for more 
than twenty four hours. (See accounts, New York, New Lon- 
don, Norwich, Worcester, and Boston. ) 
Ath. For some hours previous to the hurricane, there was a 
great and rapid condensation of vapor, producing a heavy fall of 
rain in the line of the N. E. storm. (See accounts, Philadelphia, 
New York, New London, Norwich, Worcester, Boston and Troy.) 
Sth. The hurricane (that is, the violent blow) was mostly from 
the 8. E., blowing into and at right angles to the N. E. storm, at 
its peter termination. 
6th. As the 8. E. wind apstanihaes the line of the N. E. storm, — 
it was deflected into an E. wind. (See table, Salem, Boston, and 
New London. )* 
7th. The general~form of the hurricane in and about New 
England was that of an eccentric ellipse, with its longest diame- 
ter N. E. and 8. W.; wind blowing N. E. on the N. W. side; 
N.N. W. and W. N. W. at its south end; S. E. on its 8. E. side,t 
curving into an E. wind at its junction with the N. E. current ; 
wind blowing from S. at the easternmost part of the hurricane. 
The whole body of the hurricane, in this form, moved to the 
north or on the meridian. 
ae - May Wwe not rather suppose that the more violent S. E. storm pursued its own 
course of rotation in this direction by E. and N. E. without regard to the previous 
N. E. wind which it had superseded ?—Eps. 
¥ Did not this 8. E. wind pertain more nearly to the centre of the path of the 
hurricane ? ? For we find that the ship Prudence, twenty leagues from St. George's 
Shoals, had a tremendous swell from 8. W., which woald appear to have been 
produced @ on the S.E Pan n of th the gale. Ligss 
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