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desirable to have different correspondents at places along 

 our northern frontier, and others on our sea-board, from 

 Cape May to Cuba. Also, to have some correspondents in 

 the far west ; we have none at present further than Nash- 

 ville. 



The committee earnestly request that the present oppor- 

 tunity of discovery may not be lost ; that the undertaking 

 may not languish for want of zeal ; their correspondents 

 may be assured, even when the committee is silent, that 

 they are constantly at their posts, waiting for the commu- 

 nications with that intense interest which always accom- 

 panies sanguine hopes of successful investigation. 



Second Report of the Joint Committee on Meteorology^ of the 

 American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute of 

 Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. 



100. In commencing this report we have still to regret 

 that the extent of our correspondence north west and south 

 east is not great enough to enable us to ascertain the boun- 

 daries of our great storms in those directions; and of course 

 we cannot determine the direction of the winds in those 

 boundaries a knowledge which we believe to be of the 

 highest importance to the science of meteorology. The 

 committee do not yet despair, however, of extending this 

 correspondence so far as to attain so desirable an end, 

 and with the hope of aiding this extension, proceed to give 

 an account of a few of the most remarkable storms which 

 have occurred since their first report. 



These we are sure will be found to be highly interesting, 

 even with the imperfect knowledge which our limited cor- 

 respondence enables us to give of them. It will be seen that 

 the character of some of them varies from our great north 

 east storms which come from the south west. They seem 



