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Art. XXIV.—On the Avoidance of the Violent Portions of Cy- 
clones ; with Notices of a Typhoon at the Bonin Islands; by JouN 
Roperrs, Commander, U.S.N., and Anton Scuénzory, 
Assist. Astronomer. Communicated by W. C. REDFIELD.* 
(Read before the American Association at Albany, August, 1856.) 
U.S. Ship Vincennes, 
_ Dear Sir,—I am a firm believer, out of my own experience, 
In the truth of your theory of hurricanes. I think that you 
have enabled me to avoid storms, into.whose centers I should 
have been unwilling to be involved, and I feel therefore that I 
am under personal obligations to you for your happy meteoro- 
cal discoveries, You have conferred by them a great good 
to the nation and to the world. 
_ Ido not know whether my notes of weather have any value 
lM regard to the hurricane experienced by the Mississippi on 
Oct. 7th, 1854. On Sept. 28d preceding this typhoon we were 
in the China Sea in lat. 21° 44 N., lon. 119° 17’ East. The 
with a cross and violent sea, with heavy rain, and fitful squalls 
Continually increasing in frequency and force. I considered that 
I Saw a cyclone before us, and that we should avoid its force, by 
The harbor of Port Lloyd is formed by the crater of an extinct 
Voleano, The sides rise precipitately above the water to the 
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even the sweet potatoe vines in the she 
destroyed i ir wilting and turning black to 
yed them, I attributed their w cat ded that the 
This storm was not so marked as to give any distinct warning 
of its approach. The evening before the hurricane the surf 
broke more heavily upon the mouth of the harbor than I had 
ever seen it. Had we wee at sea I have little doubt but that we 
should have known of its approach. This storm is well 
* This 3 fate i ommané 
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By way of answer to some earlier ing 
—W. ©. B. 
