190 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



On reading the logs of the several ships, I kept the map 

 of the particular storm open before me, and, drew my pencil 

 across the point where the ship was, drawing an arrow so 

 as to exhibit to the eye which way the wind was blowing 

 at that time in that locality. 



When several logs were read, and arrows made in every 

 locality, I was not a little pleased to see, in all the storms, 

 decided proofs of an inward motion of the air, if not exactly 

 to one common centre, quite as nearly so as any one had a 

 right to expect ; because oblique forces are known to exist, 

 which must vary the direction of the wind. I shall now 

 give a few examples of that period of the several storms, in 

 which I find the most simultaneous observations. 



Savannah la Mar Hurricane of 3d Oct. 1780. 



148. About 1, P. M., at Savannah la Mar, on the 3d, the 

 gale began from the S. E., and continued with increasing 

 violence until four in the afternoon, when it veered to the 

 S., and became a perfect tempest, which lasted in force till 

 about eight ; it then abated. The sea, during the last period, 

 exhibited a most awful scene ; the waves swelled to an 

 amazing height, rushed with an impetuosity not to be de- 

 scribed on the land, and in a few minutes determined the 

 fate of all the houses in the bay. 



Log- of the Badger, at Lucia Bay, Jamaica. P. M., of 

 2d, moderate wind, N. E., at 9, hard rain, and continued 

 raining all night, with squally weather ; at 10, A. M. ; of the 

 3d, tripped our anchor, let her drive within the point of the 

 Fort till it bore N. by E., distant three-quarters of a mile, 

 and the eastermost N. E. by N., distance one mile and a 

 half; heavy squalls with hard rain; down top-gallant sails. 

 1, P. M., wind N. E., let go the sheet anchor in five and a 

 half fathoms : muddy ; veered the cable, and brought both 



