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No. XI. Inland Storm, over the Lakes, and thence to the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence ; November 10 to 12, 1835. 



No. XII. From near the meridian of 50° W. to the Northern part of 

 Cuba, thence progressing to the South of West to Vera Cruz ; August 30 

 to September 7, 1888. 



No. XIII. From Martinique to Porto Rico, Turks Islands, and the 

 Southern part of Florida ; August 18 to 25, 1891. 



No. XIV. From 21° N. and 47° W. to Bermuda, and thence to the East- 

 ward ; September 16 to 26, 1891. 



No. XV. From near 39° N. and 51° W. to the North-Eastward and then 

 Northward ; June 8 to 10, 1891. 



No. XVI. From 23^° N. and 57° W. to 20° N. and 60° W., and then re- 

 curving to the Northward, passing over Newfoundland; August 15 to 23, 

 1892. 



The route designated as No. I. is that of the Hurricane which visited the Islands 

 of Trinidad, Tobago, and Grenada, on June 23rd, 1831. Pursuing its course 

 through the Caribbean Sea, it was subsequently encountered by H.M. schooner 

 Minx, and other vessels, and its swell was thrown with great force upon the South- 

 Eastern shores of Jamaica on the 25th, while passing that island, where the wind 

 at this time was light from the Northward. After sweepmg through the Caribbean 

 Sea, the Hurricane entered upon the coast of Yucatan, on tlie night of the 27th, 

 having moved over the entire route from Trinidad to the Western shore of the 

 Bay of Honduras, in a little more than 100 hours, a distance of nearly 1,700 miles, 

 equal to 17 miles an hour. 



Track No. II. is that of the Hurricane which desolated Barbadoes in the ni^ht 

 of August 10th, 1831 ; and which passed Porto Rico on the 12th ; Aux Cayes, in 

 Hayti, and S. lago de Cuba, on the 13th ; Matanzas on the 14th ; was encountered 

 off the Tortugas on the 15th; in the Mexican Sea on the 16th; and was at MobUe, 

 Pensacola, and New Orleans, on the 17th ; a distance of 2,000 miles in about 150 

 hours, exceeding 13i miles an hour. Its course, until it crossed the Tropic of 

 Cancer, was nearly W.N.W. Mr. Redfield adds — " In pursuing its Northern course, 

 after leaving the ocean level, it must have encountered the mountain regiozi of 

 the AUeghanies, and was perhaps disorganized by the resistance opposed by these 

 elevations. It appears, however, to have caused heavy rains in a large extent of 

 country North-Eastward of the Mexican Sea." 



Track No. III. is that of the destructi\'e Hurricane which swept over the Wmd- 

 ward Islands, August 17th, 1827; visited St. Martin and St. Thomas on the 18th; 

 passed the N.E. coast of Hayti on the 19th; Turks Islands on the 20th; the 

 Bahamas on the 21st and 22nd ; was encountered on the coast of Florida and 

 South Carolina on the 23rd and 24th ; off Cape Hatteras on the 25th ; off the 

 Delaware on the 26th ; off Nantucket on the 27th ; and off Sable Isle and Bank 

 on the 28th. Its ascertained course and progress were nearly 3,000 miles in about 

 eleven days ; or at the average rate of about 11 miles an hour. The direction of 

 its route, before crossing the Tropic, nearly N. ei"" W., and in lat. 40°, while 

 moving Eastward, N. 58' E. 



Track No. IV. The extensive Hurricane of September, 1804, which swept over 

 the Windward Islands on the 3rd of that month ; the Virgin Islands and Porto 

 Rico on the 4th ; Turks Islands on the 5th ; the Bahamas and the Strait of Florida 

 on the 6th ; the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas on the 7th ; Chesapeake and 

 Delaware, with the contiguous portions of Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey, 

 on the 8th ; and the States of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, on the 



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