98 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



about her ; it was supposed all had perished. The Cobourg 

 for five hours suffered the extremity of the gale, during that 

 time her bows were almost constantly buried in the moun- 

 tainous sea which foamed around her, and she shipped at 

 intervals some heavy seas. On arriving opposite to Kings- 

 ton, where she had to land three cabin and fifteen deck pas- 

 sengers, such was the violence of the storm that she could 

 not possibly approach the port ; she therefore had to carry 

 them down with her to Prescott, and land them at Kings- 

 ton on her return. 



Extract of a letter from Zeno Allen to James P. Espy, dated Sackett's Har- 

 bor, Jan. 8, 1836. 



Between twelve and two o'clock on the morning of the 

 llth November, the wind sheered from south to S. S. E., 

 and remained there till about six o'clock in the morning, 

 when it veered to S. S. W., blew hard and commenced rain- 

 ing. The wind continued from this point or about south 

 west till 9 P. M., blowing a perfect gale, with snow and hail. 



Extract of a letter from C. J. Brinkle to James P. Espy, dated Oswego, Nov. 



27, 1835. 



The storm commenced here about nine o'clock, P. M. of 

 10th inst., from the south east, and continued so till about 

 9 A. M. of the llth, when it chopped round to the south 

 west. Capt. Romans, of steamboat Oswego, thought it 

 prudent to remain in port, the storm was so severe, for it 

 became almost a hurricane. 



If the reader will examine these documents carefully 

 with a large map before him, he will discover that the wind 

 at Oswego blew as if there might have been a whirl from 

 left to right, and at Sackett's harbor as if from right to left. 

 This storm, therefore, was probably oblong, with its longest 

 diameter N. N. E. to S. S. W. 



