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Title: The Hurricane Guide
Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving
Storm With Atmospheric Waves.

Author: William Radcliff Birt

Release Date: June 8, 2006 [EBook #18534]

Language: English

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THE

HURRICANE GUIDE:

BEING

AN ATTEMPT TO CONNECT THE

ROTATORY GALE OR REVOLVING STORM

WITH

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES.

INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBSERVING THE PHAENOMENA OF THE WAVES AND
STORMS;

WITH

PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR AVOIDING THE CENTRES OF THE LATTER.

BY

WILLIAM RADCLIFF BIRT.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
_PUBLISHER TO THE ADMIRALTY._
1850.

PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

PREFACE.

In introducing the following pages to the notice of the Public, it is
the Author's wish to exhibit in as clear a light as our present
researches on the subjects treated of will allow, the connexion between
one of the most terrific phaenomena with which our globe is visited, and
a phaenomenon which, although but little known, appears to be intimately
connected with revolving storms. How far he has succeeded, either in
this particular object or in endeavouring to render the essential
phaenomena of storms familiar to the seaman, is left for the Public to
determine. Should any advantage be found to result from the study of the
Atmospheric Waves, as explained and recommended in this little work, or
the seaman be induced by its perusal to attend more closely to the
observations of those instruments that are calculated to warn him of his
danger, an object will be attained strikingly illustrative of the
Baconian aphorism, "Knowledge is Power."

_Bethnal Green_, April 19, 1849.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAP. I.--PHAENOMENA OF REVOLVING STORMS 7

" II.--PHAEN