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edge of the winds, all demand more than a passing notice of his death. 
Sir William Reid was born at Kinglassie in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 
of Welli He was actively engaged at the seige of Ciudad Rod- 
rigo and St. Sebastian’s. In the sanguinary assault upon the latter 
fortress, he e of the storming parties, was wounded by a 
musket ball, and fell, covered with blood, which streamed from his mouth 
and nostrils. He upposed to be dead, but, on removing from his 
ead 
severed. The removal of the handkerchief revived him, but the surgeons, 
on examination pronounced the wound mortal. Contrary to their expect- 
ations, he recovered. He was wounded four times during this war, and 
had three horses shot under him. t oan ay 
After the conclusion of the peace with France, he served on the coast 
of America, under Gen. Lambert, until the conclusion of the war here, 
when he rejoined the Duke of Wellington in Belgium, in 1815. In 1816 
he served in the expedition against Algiers; was Adjutant of the corps 
of sappers for some years after the peace. Afterward, as a Major of 
vious hurricanes, in the hope of learning something of their causes and 
mode of action, but in the West Indian histories he could find little beyond 
details of the losses in lives and property, and no attempt to furnish data 
whereby the true character or the actual courses of these storms might 
ical 
Papers of our lamented countryman, Wm. C. Redfield, met his eye, being 
wat published in the American Journal of Science in 1831. This he 
that Mr. Redfield’s views were correct, he determined to verify them “ by 
carefully charting the observations made at different points.” He soon 
became satisfied of the rotative character and determinate progress of the 
les and hurricanes of the North Atlantic, a intained by Mr. Redfield. 
1838, having been able to devote more attention to these inquiries, he 
published his first paper on hurricanes in the. second volume of “ Profes- 
Sonal.Ps al Engineers,” and soon after having prepared 
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