256 OBSEKVATIONS ON THE WINDS. 



(198.) In about a week after the storm last described, another occurred, which 

 passed New York on the 26th and 27th of August, and which was, also, on this 

 coast, a N.E. storm, of about three days duration. From the Eastward of the 

 Bahamas it appears to have passed Northwardly between the Florida Stream and 

 the Bermudas ; and touching the American shore near Cape Hatteras, raged with 

 great fury for about forty hours at each locality, as it swept the great central curve 

 of the coast ; and passing from thence, contmued its course over George's Bank, 

 in a North-Easterly direction. It was evidently of greater compass, and slower 

 progress, than the preceding storm, as proved by a collation of the various reports 

 of mariners ; and its long duration, and its effects were almost equally violent. 



The next remarkable series of Hurricanes appear to have originated in the 

 vicinity of the Windward Islands, near the close of September, 1830, and which, 

 passing Westward of the Bermudas, on a course nearly North, assumed thence a 

 more Easterly course, toward the Southern edge of the Grand Bank of Newfound- 

 land.— (5ee the Chart, Route VII.) 



This storm was very disastrous. In lat. 20^°, long. 63°, it commenced, on Sep- 

 tember 22nd, at 1 p.m., and continued till 6*' 30" p.m., from N.E. and S.W. 

 alternately. On the same day it passed through lat. 22° 46', long. 65°. At night, on 

 the 30th, in lat. 26° 7', long. 66^^°, "very heavy," for five hours and a half. On the 

 1st of October it arrived at lat. 30° 38', long. 63° ; severe at S.E., shifted to N.W. ; 

 thence it was found in lat. 33°, long. 66f^; lat. 34° 9', long. 66° 12'; lat. 35°, long. 

 68° ; lat. 38% long. 63° ; lat. 38i°, long. 57° ; lat. 40°, long. 61° ; lat. 40° 25', long. 

 58° 24' ; lat. 41°, long. 55°, and very severe. By an average estimate of rates and 

 distances, it appears to have proceeded at the rate of about 27 miles an hour. 



The extensive Hurricane of 1804, which swept over most of the Windward 

 Islands in the West Indies, commenced at Martinique, on the 3rd of September, 

 reached Savanna on the 7th, Boston on the 9th, and became a snoiv-storm on its 

 arrival in the interior of New Hampshire. 



The great gale of 1815 commenced at St. Bartholomew's on the 11th of Sep- 

 tember, and reached Ehode Island on the morning of the 23rd, where it was 

 awfully destructive from the S.E., while in the South-Eastern parts of Massa- 

 chusetts, it was then blowing at South ; at New London, from East to S.E. ; and 

 at New York, from North to N.N.W. 



(199.) A S.E. storm in Septenber, 1821 — (see Chart, Track VIII.) — was expe- 

 rienced in the central parts of Connecticut, commenced blowing violently from 

 E.S.E. and S.E., at about 6 p.m. on the 3rd of September, having been preceded 

 by a fresh wind from the Southern quarter, and flying clouds. It continued blowing 

 in heavy gusts, and with increasing fury, till about 10 p.m., when the wind sud- 

 denly subsided. A cakn or lull, of perhaps fifteen minutes duration, ensued, but 

 was terminated by a violent gust from the N.W., which continued till about 11 p.m. , 

 and then gradually abated. Much damage was sustained, and fruit-trees, com, 

 &c., were uniformly prostrated toward the N.W. 



At New York the same storm was experienced, with at least equal violence, 

 about three hours earlier than in Connecticut, but blowing from a more Eastern 

 quarter. In the North-Eastern parts of Massachusetts it was experienced some 

 hom-s later ; and at Providence, in Rhode Island, the storm was felt in the South- 

 Eastern quarter, but not severely ; as was also the case in the South-Eastern 

 parts of Connecticut. In the N.W. portions of the latter state, and the adjacent 

 towns of Massachusetts, the gale blew with its chief violence from the N.W. 

 quarter, and the trees and corn were uniformly prostrated toward the S.E. 



At New York the gale was from N.E. to East, and commenced blowing with 

 violence at 5 p.m., continued with great fury for three hours, and then changed 

 to West. More damage was sustained in two hours than was ever before witnessed 

 in the city, the wind increasing during the afternoon, and ai sunset uus a Hztrricdtte. 

 At the time of low water the wharfs were overflowed, the water having risen 13 fe<^t 



