Prof. Farrar^s account of the Storm of Sept. 23, 18 Ij. 



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I have not beeu able to fiad the centre or the limits of thi 

 tempest. It was very violent at places separated hy a considera- 

 ble interval from each otlicr, while the intermediate region suITor- 

 ed much less. Its course through forests in some instances was 

 marked almost as defiuitely, as where the trees have been cut 

 down for a road. In these cases, it appears to have been a movc- 



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England which escaped its fury. Toward the interior it raged 

 with less violence, and in Vermont and the western parts of New 

 Hampshire, I am told that it w^as not noticed as particularly re- 

 markable. Yet still further west on the St. Lawrence, the wind 

 was so high as to render it extremely dangerous to be out in boats 

 on the river. And what is still more remarkable, the storm be- 

 an to grow violent at this place about the same time that it com- 

 menced near the Atlantic, and subsided about the same time. 



There is something worthy of particular attention in the di- 

 rection of the wind, at the several places where the storm pre- 

 vailed. On the 2Sd, the wind appears to have been pretty gen- 



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erally from the N, E. The storm commenced, as is usual, to the 

 leeward. But when the wind shifted from N. E. to E. and S. 

 along the coast of New England, it veered round in the oppo- 

 site direction at New York, and at an earlier period. It reached 

 its greatest height at this latter place about 9 o'clock on the m(»ra- 

 ing of the 23d, when it was from the N. W. Whereas, at Bos- 

 ton, it became most violent about two hours later, and blew from 

 the opposite quarter of the heavens. At Montreal the direction 

 of the wind was the same as at New York, but did not attain its 

 greatest height so soon by several hours. 



