SECTION FIFTH. 



EXAMINATION OF REm's, PIDDINGTON's, AND LOOMIs's STORMS. 



Colonel Reid's Storms. 



147. PRESIDENT A. D. BACHE, on his return from Europe, 

 put into my hands a highly interesting work by Lieut. Col. 

 W. Reid, C. B., of the Royal Engineers, being " An attempt 

 to develop the law of storms, by means of facts, arranged 

 according to place and time, and hence to point out a cause 

 for the variable winds, with a view to practical use in navi- 

 gation." 



This work is illustrated by charts showing the direction 

 in which the various storms investigated moved along the 

 surface of the sea, and showing the locality of the ships 

 whose logs are given in the body of the work. 



This work furnishes many additional proofs of that beau- 

 tiful generalization first hinted at by Franklin, afterwards 

 by Dr. Mitchell, of New York, and lately established in the 

 most satisfactory manner, according to the true principle of 

 inductive philosophy, by William C. Redfield, of New York : 

 namely, " Great storms which originate in the Windward 

 Islands of the West Indies ; progress from the place of com- 

 mencement in a curve towards the N. W., till on reaching' the 

 lat. of 30 N.. when they are moving nearly towards the A 7 "., 

 their motion after this is towards the N. E. as far as traced" 1 



1 Perhaps they sometimes turn E., or even S. E. 



