In Memory of Henry Coit Perkins of Newburyport Mass 1873
In Memory of Henry Coit Perkins of Newburyport Mass 1873
Samuel Jones Spalding
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(See the hypothetical explanations of the tails of comets in my scrap-book. ) In December, 1839, a succession of very severe and disastrous storms occurred at about weekly intervals along the Atlantic coast, which called my attention to the sub- ject of meteorology, and for a number of years, about the time of the publication of Mr. Espy's work on the 'Philosophy of Storms, ' or shortly after, to a meteoro- logical record, and to the study of meteorological phe- nomena. As the result of this st...udy, I learned that a sudden rise rather than fall of the mercury indicated the approach of a storm, especially if the mercurial column had been, for a few days prior to the sudden rise, sta- tionary ; that the fall came on gradually as the vapors, visible as haze, came to the zenith from the S. W. Or W. ; that it was lowest in the lull, and that the gradual rise afterwards indicated a return of fair weather. I thought I could perceive an interval of about seven days in very many successive storms great atmospheric waves, as it were, so that the occurrence of a severe storm on any day 20 of the week led me to expect another on or near the same day the week following ; that many storms are true cy- clones moving along the coast from the S.
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