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to the South and S,W. blowing very hard with rain at the latter point, then 

 "jumping" into the N.W., there ended, leaving you once naore to the vexation 

 of a head wind and blue sky — all this, too, it was prophesied, was to happen in 

 the brief space of three or four hours. The skipper was marvellously correct. 

 Several of those minor revolving gales, all alike, passed over us In succession, 

 convincing me that there must be some law of nature regulating these 

 things. After years found me in the Bermudas, a region, I may say of 

 revolving gales, and now I have spent ten years in this country ; and when I 

 connect my experience of former years with recent observations, 1 cannot 

 avoid the conclusion that all the revolving stoi'ms of this country, and they 

 are very many, come to us from the tropics of the Western World. 



The following notice occurred in the " Bermudian Royal Oazette,"" of Septem- 

 ber 12th, 1865. 



" Yesterday was the anniversary of the dreadful hurricane with which 

 Bermuda was visited in 1839. The wind on the 11th September, 1839, as on 

 yesterday, was from the Eastward. It subsequently, however, during the 

 continuance of the hurricane, went to E.S.E.— S. — then S.W. and eventually 

 to W. Though the appearance of the sky yesterday was very unsettled, it 

 did not bear any thing approaching the copper coloured hue which it presen- 

 ted on the eventful day above alluded to. 



"The hurricane of 1839 commenced at about 7.p.m.,and the storm did not 

 subside till about noon on the 12th. The Barometer fell to 28-3, and soon 

 after the storm subsided. It rose to 30-1. The Thermometer ranged from 85- 

 81, and went down to 71 soon after the weather moderated. 



"The melancholy appearance of the Island on the 12th from the destruction 

 which the gale had caused, can never be forgotten by those who witnessed It. 

 Scarcely a house escaped injury ; some were levelled, others unroofed and 

 side-walks split to the foundation ; trees broken and prostrated, and a num- 

 ber of vessels and boats driven on shore. 



"A distressing drought of nearly six months' continuance preceded the 

 hurricane." 



This Hurricane of the 11th Septemberj 1839, reached Charlottetown, in 

 Prince Edward Island, 46 iST. lat., on the 13th September, at 2 p.m, the wind 

 blowing from the N.E., and freshening rapidly. 



I was at that time stationed In the Island, and, at the commencement 

 of the gale, watched the two ferry-boats as they crossed the Hillsborough. 

 At 3 p.m., I returned to my own residence on the north side of Charlottetown, 

 the storm then blowing with sufficient force to hurl sundry loosened bricks 

 from the top of one of my chimneys. 



This hurricane was, therefore, forty -three hours In traversing the 983 

 English miles between the Bermudas and Charlottetown ; being at the rate 

 of 22-86, or nearly 23 English miles per hour. The time occupied in passing 

 over the Bermudas was seventeen hours, which, measured by the speed above 



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