116 Geographical Notices. 
expounded in this Journal by the late Mr. William C. Red- — 
field. His son, Mr. John H. Redfield of Philadelphia, has — 
drawn a diagram, illustrating the direction of the winds at | 
noon on the first day of October, availing himself not only of | 
the marine reports of our newspapers, but especially of the | 
abstract of observations officially ate by His Exe. R. tT 
Rawson, Governor of the Bahamas. lagram is so strik- ft 
ing that we popeedues it with the following extract from t 
Redfield’s letter to Governor Rawson. It originally appeared ft 
in connection with the latter’s Report, recently printed as @ fF - 
pamphlet at Nassau, N. P. The general course of the hur | _ 
cane eke og the Atlantic is indicated on another map by fF 
apt. Stuart. The cyclone was five days in progress — 
from the Eastern Bahamas, to the latitude of Cape Hatteras. 
Peg pias March 23, 1868. 
southeastward from Shroud Cay, the wind at tha’ — 
Cay bein from N. E. until 1 p. w., when wen was ee se Re 
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advancing limb, the  Serapest was increasing gradually as its vorte* 
was approach: -. 
Observation No. 18 (Sch. Violin), seems somewhat anomalous 
in its character, and as no log was kept, and the crew could neithe? 
read nor write, it is not too much td suppose, either that they ™ 
position was really fart sists eastward. [It is believed t 
the master and crew only guessed their position.—x. w. R.] 
