ABOUT THE 20TH OF DECEMBER, 1836. 



139 



Stations. 



December 18. 



December 19. 



December 20. 



December 21. 





December 22 





V York, .... 



W.; W. by S.; W. 

 N.W. N.W. 



W.N.W.; S.W.; 



N.W. 



S.W. 



S.W.; S.; 



N.E. 



W.; S.S.E.: 

 S.W. 



S.W. 



w. 

 w. 



N.W. 



NE.; N.E.; 

 W.N.W. 



S.W. 

 N.W. 

 S.W. 



w. 



N.E 

 W. 



w. 



S.W. 



N.W. 



N.W 

 N.W. 



N.E 



N.E.; 



N.E. 

 N.E. 



S.W.; 



N.E. 



N.W. 



N.; 



N.E.; 



S.W. 



S.W. 

 S.W.; 



S.W. 



S. 

 N.; 



E.; 



E.N.E.; 



E.N.E.; 

 S.W.; 



S.S.E.; 

 S.E.; 



S.E.; 



S.; 



SE.; 

 W.N.W. 



S.S.E. 



S. 



i^E. 



S.W. 



S; 



S.W.t 



S.; 



S.E.; 



N.W. 



S.E.; 



SS.E. 



SE.; 

 S E.; 

 S E; 



N.W. 



W. 



N.W. 

 W. 



w. 



N.W. 



N.W. 



N.W.; 



W. by 



N.W. 



W.; 



N. 



N.W. 



N.W.; 



N.W.; 



S.W. 



N.N.W. 

 N. ' 



N.W.; 



N.W.; 

 N.W.: 



W.; 



N.; 



w. 



t Columbus, . . 



E 



N.E 



N.E. 



S. 



E. 



S.W. 



S. 



s. 

 s. 



S.W. 

 S.E. 



S. 

 S.E. 



S. 



S.E. 





N.W. 



tWood, .... 



S.W.; N.W.; N.W. 

 N. N. 



W.S.W.; W.N.W.; N.W. 



W. W. 



S.S.W.; S.S.W.; N. 

 S.E. W. 



N.W. 



shing, 



S S.W. 



N.W. 





ibec, 



yW.;S. 

 S.W. 



s. 



S.W. 

 ; S. 



S- 



E. 



S. 



W. by S. 





V Haven, . . . 



W.N.W. 



N.W. 



lover, 



N.W. 



N.W. 



lan Key, .... 

 t Hampton, . . . 

 V Bedford, . . . 



Do 



tertown Arsenal, . 



N. 



N.W. 

 W. by N. 



N.W. 



N.E. 

 N.W. 

 N.W. 

 N.W. 

 N.W. 



diner, .... 



N. 



N.W. 



W.; 



W. 



N.W. 



Nj 



N.W. 



t Independence, . 

 ton, 



t Constitution, . . 

 icock Barracks, 

 ifax, 



S.E. 

 S.E.; 



S. 



S.E. 



S.; 



S.E.; 



S.W. 



S.; 



S.E.; 



N.N.E 



S.W. 



w. 



S. 

 S.E. 



s 



S.W. 



N.W. 

 N.W. 

 N.W. 

 N.W. 



N. 



muda, .... 



N.; 



N ; 



s:s7e. 



S.W. 



Johns, .... 











At Bermuda, on the 23d, the wind was N^ N. N. E.; E. N. E.; and at St. 

 Johns, N. N. W. I have drawn a dark line across the preceding table, repre- 

 senting the time of the barometric minimum. It will be observed that this 

 crisis was marked by an extraordinary change of wind. Thus, at almost every 

 station in the table, the wind, for nearly a day before the crisis, blew from the 

 southern quarter, generally for several hours from the south-east. This south- 

 east wind is believed to have been more general than the table would seem to 

 indicate; because, not being of long continuance, it did not, at every station, 

 happen to blow at either of the fixed hours of observation. This crisis was as 

 uniformly followed by a wind from nearly the opposite quarter; commonly the 

 north-west. This sudden change of wind, then, was every where one of the 

 most prominent features of the storm. The wind, before the change, is cha- 

 racterized by the terms high — strong — windy — brisk — fresh — very high — vio- 

 lent — gale — severe gale. It would seem to have been most severe at New York, 

 and places farther east. After the change, it is characterized by the terms 

 high — very windy — violent — blustering — hard violent — strong gusts — strong 

 gale — tremendous gale — one of the most violent gales ever experienced. From 

 which it would appear that the wind was generally more violent after than 



