Observations on a Hurricane in Ohio. 373 
Passing over now to the south side of the road, a few rods beyond 
the barn B, the trees were generally turned northward, but some 
eastward. Opposite the houses D, G and J, was a white oak forest. 
Here the trees were not generally blown down, but broken off at an 
elevation from the ground of from twenty to forty feet. The stoutest 
white oaks of two feet diameter were snapped like a walking cane. 
I measured the bearings of a large number of the fallen trunks; 
they were N. 56° W.; N. 46° W.; N. 32° W.; N. 31° W.; 
N. 29° W.; N. 2° E.; and N. 14° E. Within these limits the 
bearings of nearly all the trees in this forest were embraced, if we 
except a few which lay very near the road. Here the trees were 
thrown down in much greater disorder; thus, directly opposite the 
house G and near the road, one tree of immense size fell N. 31° W. 
Only two rods distant were two others of about the same dimensions 
which fell S. 31° E., and then another N.31° W. ‘Thus here were 
four large trees side by side with their trunks as nearly parallel as 
they could well be laid, while the tops of two pointed northward and 
those of the others southward. 
The preceding observations will shew the direction of the fallen 
trees as compared with the track of the hurricane, for the latter was 
almost due east and west, not following absolutely a straight course, 
yet very nearly so. I have introduced the observations here for the 
sake of shewing how great variety there was in the bearings of the 
fallen trunks, and also to shew that these bearings were actually 
measured and not loosely estimated by the eye. A general idea of 
the direction of the trees will be best acquired from the diagram, in 
which I have attempted to represent their relative positions and bear- 
ings. It will then appear from an inspection of the diagram, that in’ 
the midst of some disorder there was a degree of uniformity. Thus 
upon either border of the track the trees all incline toward some 
point in the center of the track. ‘There is not an example of a 
tree being turned outward from the track, nor even one which lies 
in a direction parallel to it. I except from this remark those near 
the middle of the path, which were subject to a different law as will 
presently be seen. Of all the trees situated near the borders of the 
track, the bearing which approaches nearest to parallelism with the 
track was in the case of an apple tree about half way between the 
houses Cand D. This bore S. 68° E., differing 22° from parallel- 
ism. Thisisa striking result and clearly shews that the wind blew from 
both borders of the track towards some point in the center of the 
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