162 Phenomena of the Cuba Hurricane. 
We hope that this elegant and valuable work will find its way 
to the libraries of our men of science and fortune. It is a model © 
which our best geologists and topographers may study with pro- 
fit. It will exhibit to younger students in physical science, the a 
rich rewards of concentrated and long continued labor, and it | 
may excite some of our own countrymen to achieve among the \ 
unexplored volcanoes of the South, and on our western coast, 
conquests in science more glorious than those of victorious arms. 
Art. XV.—On Three several Hurricanes of the American Seas 
and their relations to the Northers, so called, of the Gulf of 
Mexico and the Bay of Honduras, with Charts illustrating 
the same ; by W. C. Reprimip. 
(Continued from Vol. I, p. 369.) 
Review of the Poca teouge and Characteristics of the ee 
_ Hurricane. 
Devs detailed observations and accounts which have now been. 
submitted, afford us a comprehensive view of the two Cuba 
storms, in their daily progress, and may serve for enabling other 
3 ‘to make a more complete analysis and generalization of 
- the several. phenomena than can be attempted on the present oc- 
casion. It will be my province to elucidate some of the more 
prominent facts and characteristics which pertained to these aii , 
and especially to the great hurricane. 
Track or THE Storm.—From what primary sources, or in 
what particular region this hurricane had its origin, or on what 
portion of the earth’s surface it first took effect as an observable 
gale of wind, does not appear. Its observed route, as indicated 
by the ferkwoing recitals, appears nearly direct from the shores of 
Central America, crossing the islands of Cuba and Newfoundland, 
and may fairly be estimated as extending from Cape Honduras, 
lat. 16°, lon. 86°, to a point on the axis line opposite to the ors 
tion of the Independence at noon of Oct. Sth, near lat. 50° 25° 
lon. 49° 45’; which, following the axis route, exceeds three 
thousand stdtuts miles. To what further extent this storm 
~~ be tmpcedy does not dissinesly appear.* 
