Il8 IN A CYCLONE AT SEA. 



It would be foreign to the province of this work 

 to do more than sketch a brief outline of this subject. 

 It has, however, been " generally remarked, that the 

 most active and violent storms are usually the most 

 regular and uniform in the development of these 

 characteristic movements, already described."* 



And fortunate it is that this is so, because it 

 has enabled a set of rules to be drawn up, showing 

 how officers encountering one of these hurricanes 

 at sea, can tell with comparative certainty where- 

 abouts the vortex of the storm is passing, and then 

 by following the instructions given, they can 

 generally manage, even in a sailing ship, to run away 

 from the approaching storm, so as to escape at all 

 events from its most dangerous phases; for a vessel 

 getting into the vortex of a hurricane of the worst 

 description, we need hardly say, runs a very good 

 chance of never being heard of again. The rules 

 for ascertaining the probable position and course of 

 hurricanes are given in extenso in various works on 

 navigation ; but a clear, short, and valuable account of 

 these matters will be found, condensed into a few 

 pages, in a naval pamphlet recently published at 

 Portsmouth by Captain Jackson, R.N.,f to which those 

 who are curious about such things will do well 

 to refer. And in the "Compendium of Geography 

 and Travel for Central and South America " the 

 leading fact is set forth in a single sentence as 

 follows 



* The Law of Storms, etc., by W. H. Rosser, 1876, p. 13. 



\ The Principal Winds and Currents of the Globe, also Rainy 

 Seasons, Ice Limits, Fogs, Rollers, and Revolving Storms, by Captain 

 Robert Jackson, R.N., 1890, published by H. Lewis, Portsmouth. 



