74 O. N. Stoddard on the Brandon Tornado. 
Having made these general statements, we may now examine 
more particularly the bearings of objects prostrated by the wind. 
The following table contains the bearings of a survey across the 
path of the tornado, 14 mile S. West of Brandon, commencing 
on the right. The plot of these bearings will be found in the 
left part of Section L 
Course of the storm, N. 56}° E. 
1. Atree, - - - N. 564° E. 
2. - . - N. 45°. E, 
ae ee eee 
mea . - . N. 224° E. 
5. Several trees, - N, 45°... E, 
6. A tree, - - - 1B sagen 8 
7. “ overlying 6, N. 
Bae - - : N. 
Seis terse B45 ING S292 Ke: 
We. Sf nepese 9 2 5 N. 563° E. 
11. A fence, : - N. 6° W. This was near the middle of the track. 
12. A tree, - - - N. 112° W. 
13. A hickory, diagram (23) N. 45° W. The top after falling broken off and turned 
round to the East. 
14, ee oaks, = - - N. 45° E. Near the hickory, but much smaller. 
15. Trees in orchard, = - E. 10° '8. 
16. Roof of Baxter’s barn, E. 45° S. 
vine, and afterwards half of the tree, including the top, was 
turned round towards the east. The same current which pro- 
duced this effect, prostrated three small oaks (3). ‘The shingles 
from Baxter’s barn (1) were first carried southeast, and then 
strewed for fifty rods in a curved line gradually bending in tow- 
ards the course of the storm. ‘The curved arrows from the bart 
correctly represent the arrangement of the shingles. ‘Trees in 
an orchard near by were thrown down E. 10° S., coinciding in 
direction with the fragments from the barn. 
The central whirl of the storm passing over the hickory and 
oaks, might account for their position, but not for that of the 
fence. The evidence from the latter of a secondary whirl, was 
as clear and explicit as well could be. Had the rails been re- 
moved by hand and laid on opposite sides, the result could not 
have been more regular. A secondary whirl about 60 rods in di- 
ameter, lagging a little behind the more extended one on the 
ight, seems undeniable from the facts in the case. ge 
- ‘To what extent this may have disturbed the general action, it 
is impossible to say. Its existence, if admitted, did not however 
