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ing as before, for the centre of tlie storm only can have a 

 lull. 



4th. Where the wind set in from the S. E. ; there is no lull 

 mentioned previous to a change of wind, and in no instance 

 could I find that it changed round to N. W. Two instances 

 are given by Mr. Redfield, one at Bridgeport, Conn., which 

 I find is incorrectly reported, and instead of changing round 

 to N. W., it should read to S. W. the other at sea, forty 

 miles N. of Cape Henry ; this I could not find, and I suspect 

 there is something wrong in it, for forty miles N. of Cape 

 Henry is not at sea, hut in the eastern shore of Virginia. 

 At other places in a right line with this, it set in from the 

 N. E., e. g. at Cape May and Norfolk. 



5th. Along the seaboard, where the wind had been S. and 

 S. E. all day, at the approach of the storm, it backed round 

 towards the E. and E. N. E. ; and inland, where the wind 

 had been N. W., it backed round towards the N. and N. E. 

 on the approach of the storm. 



6th. Wherever the wind set in from the N. E., it ought not 

 to have changed at all, according to the centrifugal theory, 

 whereas it did actually always change round by the N. to 

 N. W. or W., or by the S. to S. W., as it should do by the 

 centripetal theory. 



7th. According to the centrifugal theory, the wind never 

 could change round on the extreme N. W. boundary from 

 the N. N. E. to the N. W., as it did, according to the centri- 

 petal theory. 



8th. On the extreme S. E. boundary it could not blow at 

 all from the S. E., according to the centrifugal theory : but it 

 did, according to the centripetal theory, blow in that direc- 

 tion in many places on that border, for six or eight hours 

 during the whole strength of the gale. 



9th. On the extreme N. W. border, according to the cen- 

 trifugal theory, it could not blow the hardest from the N. W., 

 nor on the extreme S. E. border could it blow the hardest 



