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till, on the passing of the gale’s axis, it has veered so far tithe 
left as to blow from northern and northwestern points of the ho- 
rizon, thus turning gradually towards the center path, and, final- 
ly, recrossing it, in the rear of the storm’s axis, on the fair-weath- 
er or clearing-up side. See observations in Table 1; which fol- 
lows. We find, indeed, in some localities, that a portion of the 
successive changes in the wind’s direction have oceurred some- 
what suddenly, or with some irregularity, but this will not inval- 
idate the general result of the observations. 
(2.) If now we place ourselves again in the front of the storm, 
on its center path, and follow back the first southeasterly wind 
towards its apparent source on the right hand side of the storm 
path, the observations will show, that as we recede from the axis 
line and the storm advances, the wind comes, successively, from 
_ points more and more southward or southwesterly, till, on the 
passing of the gale’s axis, it comes from points qcteniealy more 
westward and leading us again towards the axis line, on the pos- 
terior side of the storm, till, finally, we find ourselves in the same 
northwesterly wind from which we had parted at the end of our 
first semi-circuit of the gale. See the successive observations in 
Table III. 
In thus tracing the circuit of the wind, on the two sides of the 
storm-path, we have followed the order in which the wind’s chan- 
ges are severally presented to observers. We have seen that 
these changes have been in opposite courses of succession, on the 
opposite sides of the axis path, viz. from the right towards the 
left, on the left hand side of the path, and from the left towards 
the right, on its right hand side. But if we follow out our first 
trace continuously round the circuit, from the rear to the front of 
the storm on its right side, being the constant direction from 
right to left, ©), we shall then follow the wind in its own order 
of progress, which is the reverse of the order in which its suc- 
cessive changes are always presented to observers on this right 
hand side of the axis route, by the advance of the storm over the 
places of observation. 
It is evident, therefore, that observers in the right side of a 
storm, in this hemisphere, have the changes of wind presented in 
a batkward or reversed succession; while with those on the left 
side of the path the succession of clithoen 3 is a forward one, coin- 
with the order of the wind’s rotative progress. 
