AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 

Arr. 1—On the first Hurricane of September 1853, in the 
Atlantic ; with a Chart; and Notices of other Storms : by 
a. Reorte.p. 
Since I first ascertained the rotary and progressive movement 
of storms, in the year 1821, I have on various occasions endeav- 
ored to show some of the results which then became obvious 
or have been established in the progress of more extended inves- 
tigations.* Of the results thus noticed, the systematic rotation of 
Storms and gales in different regions, their opposite rotation and 
polar progression on opposite sides of the equator, and the me- 
chanical influence of their rotary action on the movements of the 
ahha when viewed in their practical relations, are the most 
important 
n the present occasion, I propose to give some account of the 
bcgtiion and extent of the earliest autumnal hurricane of 1853 
in the north Atlantic. This case is not selected as differing in 
a features from other gales in the same region, 
lefly on account of the unusual extent of route that can be 
traced by direct observations. For it seems to have been inferred 
by some, that those gales which have previously been traced and — 
* See this Journal, vols. xx, xxv, xxxi, xxxv, and 3 Be First Series; and vols. i 
and ii, New Series: with her communications. For further elucidations in this de- 
Fea of meteorology, since the year 1837, see the valuable publications of Col, 
Mr. Piddington, Surgeon Thom, and other writers. 
Series, Vol. XVIII, No. 52.—July, 1854. 1 
