nding up squall from the
north to clear away the vapory atmosphere.

[20] From the _New York Tribune_, July 9, 1853.

[21] These pages are now in the compositors' hands, (Nov. 21st,) and up
to the last moment the Author has observed carefully in New York the
passages of these vortices. October 24th, in the inner vortex descending
produced a violent storm on the coast, and much damage ensued. November
7th, the same vortex ascending was also severe. And on November 13th,
early, the passage of the central vortex ascending, caused a flood in
Connecticut of a very disastrous nature. Would it not pay the insurance
offices to patronize such investigations in view of such palpable facts
as these?

SECTION THIRD.

OBJECTIONS TO LUNAR INFLUENCE.

We have now presented a theory of the weather, which accounts for many
prominent phenomena, a few of which we shall enumerate. It is an
observed fact, that in all great storms electrical action is more or
less violent, and that without this element it seems impossible to
explain the velocity of the wind in the tornado, its limited track, and
the formation of large masses of ice or hail in the upper regions of the
atmosphere. It is also an observed fact, that the barometer is in
continued motion, which can only be legitimately referred to a change in
the weight of the atmospheric column. This we have explained as due to
atmospheric waves, caused by the greater velocity of rotation of the
external ether, as well as to the action of the three great vortices.
These causes, however, only partially produce the effect--the greater
portion of the daily oscillations is produced by the action of the great
radial stream of the solar vortex, as we shall presently explain. It is
an observed fact, that, although the storm is frequently violent,
according to the depression of the barometer, it is not always so.
According to the theory, the storm will be violent, _ceteris paribus_,
on a line of low barometer, but may still be violent, when the contrary
obtains. Another fact is the disturbance of the magnetic needle during a
storm. Storms are also preceded generally by a rise in the thermometer,
and succeeded by a fall; also by a fall in the barometer, and succeded
by a rise. It is also well known, that hurricanes are unknown at the
equator, and probably at the poles also. At all events, they are rare in
lat. 80d, and, according to Capt. Scoresby, storms are there frequently
raging to the s