of the United States and the West Indies. 119 
Of the multitude of facts by which this part of the subject might be 
illustrated, we will only state, that in the late hurricane at Barbadoes,. 
(that of August 1831) the trees near the northern coast of that island, 
lay from N. N. W. to S. S. Es having been prostrated by a northerly - 
wind in the earlier part of the storm, while in the interior and some 
other parts of the island, they were found to lie from south to north, 
having fallen in the later period of the gale—That after the same hur- 
ricane, advices which were received from the islands of St. Croix and 
- Porto Rico, (which lay near the northern margin of its track) stated 
that no hurricane had been experienced at these islands; but it af- 
terwards appeared that some portions of these islands had suffered 
damage from this hurricane in the night of the 12th to 13th of An- 
gust, two days after it passed over the island of Barbadoes.—That the 
sea*islands which border the eoast of Georgia and the Carolinas, are 
known to suffer greatly from these tempests, while little or no injury 
is sustained in the interior at the distance of a few miles from the 
coast. One of the most striking characteristics of these storms, is 
the heavy swell which in open sea is often known to extend itself on 
both sides of the track, entirely beyond the range of the gale by 
which it was produced. ‘The last hurricane to -which we have allu- 
ded, threw its swell with tremendous force upon the northern shores 
of Jamaica, having passed to the northward ake es island. 
A variety of deductions ma yb d which 
we have stated, some of which, are deeply i interesting to the philoso- 
pher and votary of science. For ourselves, we disclaim any bondage 
to existing theories in meteorology ; and shall on the present occasion, 
only proceed to notice a few. of the more practical inferences which, 
to navigators and others may, perhaps, be of no doubtful utility. 
1. A vessel bound to the eastward between the latitudes of 329 
and 45° in the western part of the Atlantic, on being overtaken by 
a gale which commences blowing from any point to the eastward of 
S. E. or E..S. E. may avoid some portion of its violence, by putting 
"her head to the northward, and when the gale has veered sufficien 
ix the same direction, may safely resume her course. But by stand- 
ing to the southward under like circumstances, she will probably we 
into the heart of the storm. 
2. In the same region, vessels, on taking a gale from S. E. or stints 
near thereto, will probably soon find themselves in the heart of the 
storm, and after its first fury is spent, may expect its recurrence from 
the opposite quarter. The most p i 
