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cover this remarkable fact; that on the 17th, the wind in 

 the Atlantic, some distance from the coast was blowing from 

 the S. E. all the way from Georgia to Maryland, and at the 

 same time on shore for that whole distance it was blowing 

 from the N. W. ; and that N. E. of Maryland, as far as Long 

 Island Sound, the wind was N. E., and that the only record 

 we have of a ship on the S. W. of this area, the Blanche, 

 shows the wind on the 17ih all day from the S. W., with 

 fresh breezes at the end of a violent storm. 



There are some deviations it is true, but not so great as 

 to prevent the above statement being, in the general, true. 

 I shall now give all the documents as copied by Col. Reid 

 from Mr. Redfield, together with some additional ones 

 which I have found in the newspapers of that time, and 

 leave the reader, without a wood cut of this storm, to exam- 

 ine the documents for himself. In doing so, I would recom- 

 mend him to have a map of the coast of the United States 

 open before him. 



Hurricane of 1830. 



" This storm, or hurricane, was severe at the Island of 

 St. Thomas, on the night between the 12th and 13th of Au- 

 gust, 1830. 



"On the afternoon of August 14, and the succeeding night, 

 it continued its course along the Bahama Islands, the wind 

 veering almost round the compass, during the existence of 

 the storm. 



"On the 15th of August, the storm prevailed in the Florida 

 channel, and was very disastrous in its effects. 



11 In lat. 26 51', Ion. 79 40', in the Florida stream, the 

 gale was severe on the 15th, from N. N. E. to S. W. 



" Late on the 15th, off St. Augustine, Florida, in lat. 29 

 58', Ion. 80 20', the gale was very severe. 



" At St. Andrews, twenty miles N. of St. Mary's, Georgia, 

 from eight o'clock, P. M. on the 15th, to two A. M. on the 



