Il6 THE TRACK OF A HURRICANE. 



esteem ourselves, that in these sea-girt islands of 

 Britain we are rarely or never visited by these great 

 storms in their most dangerous form. 



The tracks of hurricanes more generally seem to 

 follow the area of extreme temperatures by sea, and 

 the interior of great continents by land. There may 

 be exceptions, and there can be no doubt that every 

 part of the world may be visited by them, but we 

 speak merely of the usual course of events in these 

 cases. As a general rule the scenes of the most 

 destructive hurricanes are almost always to be found 

 in tropical regions, wherever in fact, as we have said, 

 extreme temperatures prevail; but these disturbances, 

 are sometimes carried up for long distances into the 

 temperate zones, wherever they traverse a wide extent 

 of dry flat country. 



The experience of cyclonic storms throughout the 

 interior of the United States, for instance, seems 

 strongly to point in this direction, because, as we 

 know, the seaboard of that great country, in the tem- 

 perate zone, is generally exempt from those visitations, 

 which occur there in a severe form only upon rare 

 occasions. 



Some of the great cyclones which originate in the 

 West Indies have been known, for instance, to travel 

 as far north as the coasts of Newfoundland; thus the 

 daily progress of one of the hurricanes of 1830 was. 

 traced 



" from near the Caribbee Islands, to the coasts of Florida 

 and the Carolinas, and thence to the banks of Newfoundland, 

 a distance of more than 3000 miles, which was passed over 

 by this storm in about six days: the duration of the most 

 violent portion at the different points over which it passed 



