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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 PHÆNOMENA OF THE WAVES ANDSTORMS;

WITH

PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR AVOIDING THE CENTRES OF THE LATTER.

BY

WILLIAM RADCLIFF BIRT.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
PUBLISHER TO THE ADMIRALTY.
1850.[Pg 2]
PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.[Pg 3]

PREFACE.

In introducing the following pages to the notice of the Public, it isthe Author's wish to exhibit in as clear a light as our presentresearches on the subjects treated of will allow, the connexion betweenone of the most terrific phænomena with which our globe is visited, anda phænomenon which, although but little known, appears to be intimatelyconnected with revolving storms. How far he has succeeded, either inthis particular object or in endeavouring to render the essentialphænomena of storms familiar to the seaman, is left for the Public todetermine. Should any advantage be found to result from the study of theAtmospheric Waves, as explained and recommended in this little work, orthe seaman be induced by its perusal to attend more closely to theobservations of those instruments that are calculated to warn him of hisdanger, an object will be attained strikingly illustrative of theBaconian aphorism, "Knowledge is Power."

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CONTENTS.