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on both sides of a middle line, the wind was blowing to- 

 wards that line from Maine to the western part of New 

 York, and he will find in this storm, much to cohfirm the 

 theory advocated in this book. It seems highly probable 

 also, that this storm moved towards the south of east. For 

 the barometer had risen on the morning of the 16th at Dor- 

 chester, near Boston, more than a quarter of an inch from 

 midnight, while at New Bedford, it had risen only three 

 hundredths of an inch, and at Nantucket, it had fallen a little 

 during the same time. Besides it ceased to snow at Water- 

 ville, before it ceased at Portland, or Boston, or New Bed- 

 ford, and many hours sooner than at Nantucket. And it 

 does not appear that there was any snow on the 16th at 

 Montreal, though there was on the 14th and 15th. 



I am, perhaps, the more ready to believe, that this storm 

 travelled towards the south of east ; because by examining 

 a great many extensive barometric fluctuations, I find they 

 generally travel in that direction, and it is known that these 

 fluctuations accompany storms. Reader, is it not worthy 

 of consideration that while the barometer was very low 

 for more than twenty-four hours in the central parts of 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and a 

 mighty snow falling especially there the wind during all 

 this time on the north east of this region, was north east, 

 on the north of it, north, and on the north west of it, north 

 west? 



Let the reader also look at the Dorchester Journal, in the 

 vicinity of Boston, and he will find the wind at sunset was 

 violent E. S. E., instead of E. N. E., as Mr. Redfield infers 

 it was at that time. 



