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mined ; as its southern boundaries on that day are not 

 strictly defined by the facts collected. It certainly extended 

 down to lat. 38 in long. 73, wind still north east. And 

 there were strong gales W. S. W., about that time, from 

 lat. 31 to lat. 34. Though the packet ship Algonquin, in 

 lat. 37 50', (longitude and time of day not given,) says 

 nothing of the storm of that day, but speaks of the one 

 on the day before, it would be extremely desirable to know 

 what her log book says of the storm after she took the gale 

 east by north, near the Delaware Capes, at eight, A. M., of 

 the 17th, and then hauled off. As she went to the south, 

 her log would probably be able to answer a very interesting 

 question, which our present information leaves undeter- 

 mined. In what direction and with what force did the wind 

 blow on the south east side of the storm on the \7th ? * 



116. This storm travelled with a velocity of about eighteen 

 and one third miles an hour from beginning to beginning. 

 It was just one day in reaching Philadelphia, after it com- 

 menced in Springfield, Ohio ; a distance of about four hun- 

 dred and thirty-five miles, and a comparison with other 

 points agrees well with this. 



There is one apparent anomaly worthy of particular no- 

 tice. On the N. N. E. of the storm, eighty or one hundred 

 miles beyond its extreme boundary, there is a region from 

 which the wind seems to have blown outwards in all direc- 

 tions. 



Albany seems to be included in this region and if it 

 shall be found that at Albany and the towns near it, or per- 

 haps as far West as Utica, the barometer rose considerably 

 on the morning of the 17th, one step will be made in the 



1 Any further information concerning this storm will be gladly received. 

 If every person keeping a journal of the weather within and for some dis- 

 tance beyond its boundary, would send a copy of it for the 15th, 16th, 17th, 

 and 18th March, the apparent irregularities of this storm would probably be 

 explained. 



