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Atlantic Storms,To the editor of the Atlas:The phenomena of storms arc attracting from the scientific world considerable attention. Very important developments of the laws which govern their progress and character have latelybeen made—especially by Mr. William C. Red field of NewYork. The results of this gentleman’s investigations, as published in a late volume of Silliman s well known American Journal of Science and Arts, have been noticed with the mostflattering commendations in the principal scientific journals in England, and by various learned societies beyond the Atlantic. This adds another item to the credit of philosophic mind inAmerica.By comparing numerous data, Mr. Redficdd has traced both .the form and the progress of several storms which have lately agitated the bosom of the old Atlantic. fl heir form is that of a great whirlwind of hundreds of miles in circuit. This whirl moves round its centre in a direction opposite to the sun’s apparent motion,—and the centre, together with the whole body of the whirl, has a progressive motion onward towards the West and North in one vast curve. This curve Mr. R. has traced from a region in the Eastern Atlantic, towards the coast of Af-rica and a few degrees North of the equator, thence at first nearly West, but veering constantly more and more to the North as it approaches the American coast, until opposite New England, whence its course is nearly North ; and its further progress is still more Eastward. It is by no means yet certain that these characters belong to all the Atlantic storms. The results, however, already obtained, may be of vast importance to the interests of navigation, and thereby to the world generally.
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Brandon Voice of Freedom
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Sat, Apr 20, 1839
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