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rule, applied to the wind. That any such rule, if intended for 
general application, is only roughly approximate, goes without 
Saying, or ought to do so, at least. The angle of bearing 
changes in different parts of the storm, it varies with the 
quadrant, with the latitude, with different storms, and with 
various other conditions, too numerous to be mentioned or even 
wholly known. One good general rule is that in rear of a hurri- 
cane the wind blows somewhat decidedly toward it; and yet that 
there are marked exceptions is well illustrated by the chart of 
the hurricane of November 25, 1888, already referred to. Asa 
good example of the wind circulation in a hurricane in the tropics 
the accompanying diagram is of interest. This represents two days 
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The Cuban Hurricane of September, 1888, illustrating the surface wind-circula- 
tion on September 3d and 5th, at noon, Greenwich mean time. 
(the 3d and Sth) of the great Cuban hurricane of September, 
1888, the intervening day (September 4th) being omitted, for the 
sake of clearness. Its severity is sufficiently indicated by the 
fact that it caused the loss of fully a thousand lives in Cuba, and 
destroyed property of the estimated value of $5,000,000 in the 
single province of Sagua. Now take any point on any one of 
these spiral lines, and observe the bearing of the center: in 
rear of the storm, especially, the 8-point rule is hardly applicable, 
and action based upon it might result disastrously. 
