42 On the 'prevailing Storms of the Atlantic Coast. 



In Lat. 20° 30', Lon. 63°, the storm commenced on the 29th of 

 September, at 1, P. M., and continued till half past 6, P. M. from 

 north-east and south-west alternately. 



On the same day, in Lat. 22^ 46', Lon. 65°, a hurricane. 

 Sept. 30th, at night, Lat. 26° T, Lon. 66° SV, « very heavy" five 

 and a half hours. 



Oct. 1st, Lat. 30° 38', Lon. 63°, severe at south-east, shifted to 

 north-west. 

 " " Lat. 33°, Lon. 66° 30', severe gale or hurricane. 

 " " Lat. 34° 9', Lon. 66° 12', " hurricane" at east-south- 

 east. 

 " " Lat. 35°, Lon. 68°, severe gale. 

 " " Lat. 38°, Lon. 63°, " a hurricane." 

 " " Lat. 38° 30', Lon. 57°, severe gale. 

 " " Lat. 40°, Lon. 61°, hurricane from nearly south, at 



2, P. M., sudden and violent from the north. 

 " " Lat. 40° 25', Lon. 58° 24', moderate gale, with heavy 



swell and cross sea. 

 " " Lat. 41°, Lon. 55°, very severe. 

 By an average estimate of dates and distances, it appears to 'have 

 made progress at the rate of about twenty-seven miles per hour. 



A north-east storm, of three days' duration, appeared on our cen- 

 tral coast one week subsequent to the foregoing, the rainy, and more 

 tempestuous portion of which continued about twenty-four hours, its 

 progress and other features being analogous to those previously de- 

 scribed. 



It must not be supposed that the facts which are comprised in the 

 foregoing recitals, are peculiar only to the most violent storms, or to 

 the season of the equinoxes, but the same general features appear to 

 have pertained to every storm which has prevailed in these regions. 

 The extensive hurricane of 1804, which swept over most of the isl- 

 ands in the West Indies, commenced at Martinico on the 3d of Sep- 

 tember, reached Savannah on the 7th, Boston on the 9th, and be- 

 came a snow-storm on its arrival in the interior of New Hampshire. 

 The great gale of 1815, commenced at St. Bartholomews on the 

 18th of September, and reached Rhode Island on the morning of the 

 23d, where it was awfully destructive from the south-east, while in 

 the south-eastern part of Massachusetts it was then blowing at south, 

 at New London from east to south-east, and at New York from north 

 to north-north-west. The violent north-east snow-storm of Decern- 



