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In another hurricane, "the wind blew 

 about twelve hours with the utmost fury from 

 the N. E. and then, in an instant, perfect calm 

 ensued for an hour, then, quick as thought, 

 the hurricane sprang up with tremendous 

 force from the S. W." No other power 

 known can suspend and put in motion, in 

 opposite directions, such marvellous velocities 

 and so instantaneously. 



A remarkable phenomenon was exhibited 

 by a hurricane in 1837, and described by 

 CAPT. SEYMOUR of Cork. "For nearly an 

 hour we could not see each other nor any- 

 thing else, but merely the light, and most 

 astonishing, every one of our finger-nails 

 turned quite black and remained so nearly 

 five weeks afterwards. This fact may be 

 classed among other proofs of the agency 

 of electricity in the production of hurri- 



canes." 



The following facts are entirely inconsistent 

 with usual methods of explanation of the 

 cause of winds: "The entire atmosphere, to 

 the altitude of many thousand feet, is con- 

 stantly traversed by numerous horizontal 

 currents of air, flowing in different directions 

 and at different heights." 



" The course of a balloonist was altered no 



