10 Cape Verde and Hatteras Hurricane. 
a correction of ten to thirty two degrees is required for the west- 
erly variation, from off Georges Shoals to the Rockall Bank, and 
the shores of Europe 
The first report in the above series is important, viewed as the 
earliest notice, and as from a region long supposed to be free 
from hurricanes and gales; of which more hereafter. 
e commencement of the gale at N. E. with the Independ- 
ence (2) marks nearly its center-path. On carrying back the 
trace-line derived from this and subsequent reports, it appears 
that the William Money (1) was north of this line, in the right 
side of the gale, as relates to its course of progression. e In- 
dependence © was also on the right of the center-path, during the 
middle and latter part of the gale, as is shown by the veering of 
the wind: both vessels being bound northward. The positions 
reported, are probably those of the noon immediately preceding 
_the onset of the gale. 
e Hermann (5) was bound southward. Hence her final 
position in the gale was probably more southward than that re- 
ported. The remarkable fall i as her barometer showed a position 
near to the axis of the storm 
The Ocean Bird (8) first “encomterd the gale at E. N.E., 
which places her in the right-front of the storm. Had she then 
hove to on the starboard tack, it wind would have veered by 
the east, as with (2); but steering south, and then scudding 
before the wind during the night, she crossed the 
center-path and ran partly round the axis of rota- N. i) 
interest to some who think we have not shown 7 
the wind’s rotation. 
The rate of advanee appears to have lessened as the storm ap- 
proached the line or axis of equal diurnal motion ; the position of 
which, on this occasion, appears to have been somewhat above 
the 30th parallel of latitude.t 
sage os Daily Times, I find a letter of which the following is an ex- 
Phy 2 ech an obvious correction, probably gives the true place of the Her- 
n int € 

man t. Thomas, Sept. 19, agen On the 4th, the barometer fe: 
and the wind was fresh from the Nort , giving rise to some apprehension that a 
hurricane was at hand. But it was as only 1 the py oni the wings of one i 
to the northeast of us, where the French brig Diamond, and the American brig Carl- 
ton, from Boston, and the ge ooner Ann Maria, from Baltimore, pena with its 
fury. Col. Rew’s Theory, or rather Mr. Reprreiy’s Theo ory of the gyratory move- 
-ments of these storms, can no axa be doubted. A vessel was seen by the Dia- 
mond on the 4th, dismasted.” 
From the a payee relations between the diurnal rotation of the earth’s crust 
that of the immediately incumbent atmosphere, which result from the inertia 
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