PROFESSOR LOOMIS'S STORM. 



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table of latitudes and longitudes, as a beautiful specimen of 

 inductive philosophy. Professor Loomis, in the investiga- 

 tion of this magnificent storm, has added another link to 

 the long chain of evidence, that the wind blows inwards 

 towards the centre of storms, and also that storms of great 

 magnitude in the United States, have frequently the longest 

 diameter nearly north and south, and move nearly side fore- 

 most towards the east. 



The simplicity and uniformity of nature in all her great 

 laws, lead us to believe that there is uniformity and regular- 

 ity in the phenomena of storms also. Let the reader exam- 

 ine, in the American Phil. Transactions, professor Loomis's 

 original article of which this is a very imperfect abstract, 

 and he will see with what wonderful regularity the storm 

 travelled from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, and 

 how the barometer every where rose in front of the storm, 

 and sunk on its near approach, and let him compare these 

 facts with those detailed in other storms, both on the east 

 and west of the Atlantic, and he will perceive that a most 

 wonderful uniformity seems to pervade the whole. (116, 

 134, and 171.) 



I have copied from Professor Loomis a chart of the fluc- 

 tuations of the barometer in this storm, and the reader will 



