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The Wentworth Hurricane. 
By H. C. Russext, B.A., F.R.A.S., Government Astronomer. 
[Read before the Royal Society, 3 December, 1879.] 
ort Darwin reports strong N.W. winds, heavy rain, and low 
barometer, Between this point and the east coast of Queensland 
we have no reporting station; but the ‘General Pell” was near 
J Cooktown, and she reports that on January 2nd the wind changed 
_ N.W., with thick weather and abundance of rain. We then 
have another long gap to the “John Williams”; near the Island 
" Maré she got the change of wind to N.W. at 8 p.m. on 
January 9. Unfortunately the owr of the day when the changes 
place is only mentioned by the “John jams,” and we 
Win Shows that the storm was movi * 
8 miles per hour ; the second to the ‘General Pell,” 6 miles per 
hour ; and the third to the ‘‘ John Williams,” 8 miles per hour 5 SO 
- that it seems highly probable this storm travelled from Lacipede 
