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and it did not change again from that point. The Duke of 

 Manchester also had the wind to change round from N. E. 

 by E. through the E. to S. W., from which point it blew 

 with violence till the afternoon of 19th. 



The Yolof is a slight exception ; but the phenomena with 

 her will not agree so nearly with the centrifugal theory as 

 it will with mine. The wind changed round with her from 

 the E. N. E. to W. N. W. ; how long it continued there is 

 not mentioned. The direction of the wind is not mentioned 

 from 8, P. M., of 13th, when it changed, till the 21st, when 

 it was only a slight breeze from S. AY". These are the only 

 vessels having the centre of the storm passing near them. 

 Let the candid reader judge how they satisfy the conditions 

 required by the " test." 



I will now give all the evidence on this point which I 

 have at my command, of hurricanes, both in the AA r est In- 

 dies and in the Bay of Bengal. It was mentioned before, 

 that Edwards, in his History of Jamaica, vol. 3d, says that 

 " all hurricanes begin from the N., veer back to the 

 W. N. W., W., and S. S. W., and when got round to S. E., 

 the foul weather breaks up." Arid he also says, in the 

 same volume, "when the wind is S. and S. W. on the S. 

 side of the island, it is often north easterly on the N. side, 

 attended with heavy rains." As Mr. Edwards lived on the 

 S. side of the island, it may well be asked if the winds on 

 the N. side of the island, in time of hurricanes, do not 

 change round from N. by E. with as much constancy as he 

 says they do on his side round by W. ? Also, Col. Capper, 

 speaking of the great hurricane which occurred on the Cor- 

 omandel coast, on the 29th October, 1768, page 60, says : 

 " The wind began from the N. W., as is usual at the com- 

 mencement of these hurricanes" And Col. Reid says this 

 same hurricane terminated S. E. (page 264.) And on next 

 page he says, of another, quoting from Col. Capper, that it 

 began in the N. AY"., and suddenly shifted to the eastward. 



