14 Cape Verde and Hatteras Hurricane. 
Errect or tHe Storm-Winp on THE Baromerer.—The un- 
failing mechanical effect of the cyclonic wind in producing a fall 
of the barometer within the area of its circuit, and greatest in the 
axial region of the cyclone, is clearly seen in this storm. The 
following are the cases reported in which the barometer fell below 
29 inches: to which I have annexed a rough estimate of the prob- 
able distance of the vessel from the axis of the storm at the time 
of nearest approach. 
es “ed Barometer. Sepppent distance from 
ncnes, ales axis. 
Hermann (5) 27°30 near, 
Georgia (20) 28°20 — 45 miles. 
Swan (25) iF te 5: Sia a0 
Independent (49) 27°75 220 
Robert Kelly (68) 28°15 woo 
Southerner (74) 28:27 yap 
28°52 Die 
Avalanche (90) 28°50 430 * 
ndes (96 a) 28°48 280 “ 
From observations of the barometer and winds taken at vari- 
ous points in the United States near the Atlantic coast, and from 
those made at the signal station in Bermuda, it appears that the 
storm was but little felt at the latter place, except as exhibiting 
the true cyclonic wind, from 6th to 8th, from S. E., veering grad- 
ually from 8. E. to S. W., as the bearing and progression of the 
storm became changed; with a force of wind marked from 2 to 
4; the barometer at 30-10, at noon of 5th, 6th and 7th and 30°07 
at noon of 8th. The left side of the storm encroached to some 
extent upon the eastern borders of North Carolina and Virginia. 
At Scuppernong, N. C., lat. 35° 50’, lon. 76° 20’, the cyclonic 
wind blew from N. E., with a force marked 3 and 2, with rain; 
and the lower stratum of clouds [the true storm-scud or cyclonic 
barometer. At Fort Monroe, Va., the reported direction of ‘the 
storm-wind and cloud, are the same as at Scuppernong, with rain 
from S. W. at 9 e. m., with thunder and lightning. 
At Savannah, on the 5th and 6th, in front of the storm, the 
maximum of the barometer was 30-20, and 30:19; on the 7th, 
the minimum of the report is 30-06, and on the 8th, under the 
rear portion of its annular wave, 30-21. At Jacksonville, Hast 
above is apparently required. The normal course of the circulation, or of the “ cur- 
rent of rotation” in the basin of the North Atlantic, between latitudes 10° and 50°, 
well as the routes taken by some storms which have recurvated in low latitudes, 
clearly indicate that a part of the out-moving atmosphere, from the tee eae 
bites, in the w ic and Mexican Gulf, moves i iptical cir- 
cuit, and returns to the trade wind in the eastern Atlantic. This apparent tendency 
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