SECTION FOURTH. 



INVESTIGATION OF STORMS. 



Storm of the 2th January, 1839. 



134. A STORM of rain, and snow, and wind, of uncom- 

 mon violence, occurred in the middle and northern States 

 on the 26th of January, 1839. I have given a summary of 

 the documents, numbered and accompanied with a chart 

 on which the arrows are drawn, shewing the direction of 

 the wind near the middle of the day, at which time the 

 central line of the storm, from N. N. E. to S. S. W., reached 

 from the eastern coast of North Carolina to Montreal, and 

 probably much farther. How much further it extended 

 beyond the boundaries of the observations at my command, 

 it is in vain to conjecture. As the barometer was extremely 

 low at Montreal, the most northern of the observations, 

 and as the wind changed round there from south to west, it 

 is quite probable that Montreal was south of the centre. 

 And as the Baltimore Chronicle, of the 8th of February, 

 says the schooner Julia Ann was lost at sea on the 26th, in 

 the latitude of Charleston ; and the New York Gazette, of 

 February 9th, the schooner Stephen was wrecked on the 

 26th, in lat. 36 50', long. 71 15', it seems highly probable 

 the storm extended south as far as the latitude of Charles- 

 ton, The southern half of this storm was, therefore, prob- 

 ably, at least nine hundred miles long from north by east to 

 south by west, and, at the same time, the east and west 



