EXAMINATION OF REID'S STORMS. 239 



I have culled out of this storm, that portion of time in 

 which I find the greatest number of simultaneous observa- 

 tions, and I have exhibited on the annexed wood cut, the 

 localities of all the ships within the boundaries of the storm, 

 whose latitudes and longitudes could be ascertained with 

 any degree of certainty, with arrows, exhibiting the course 

 of the wind. The time is noon of the 18th of August, 

 1837. At this time, the Duke of Manchester was only a 

 few miles N. E. of the centre of this storm, for some time 

 in the afternoon, the centre of the storm passed nearly over 

 her, when the wind changed pretty suddenly S. W. At 

 this time, and for some seven or eight hours both before and 

 after, all those ships which were laboring in the most vio- 

 lent part of the storm, had the wind blowing towards a 

 central space of no great magnitude. This settles the ques- 

 tion of a violent centripetal motion of the wind in this storm, 

 in conformity with the five previously examined, and also 

 with the twelve investigated by the Joint Committee of the 

 American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute, and 

 with not less than fourteen land spouts which have already 

 been examined, in all of which the trees were thrown with 

 their tops inwards and when any are thrown across each 

 other, those which are underneath, are uniformly found to 

 be thrown inwards and backwards, and those on the top, 

 to be thrown inwards and forwards, just as they should be, 

 if the wind blows inwards. Whereas, if the wind is cen- 

 trifugal, many of the trees should have the tops thrown 

 outwards on both sides of the path. Let the reader cast 

 his eye on the chart, and he will perceive, in the borders of 

 the storm, some anomalies worth his particular attention. 

 If I have really discovered a true law of nature in these 

 storms, these apparent anomalies will be found to confirm 

 the law in a wonderful manner. Just as the moon's anom- 

 alies, when understood, were found to harmonize, in a most 

 beautiful manner, with the law of gravitation. The anom- 



