The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-01-27
VIvIscctor Again.

10 Hs Editor Qf he Pacific Commercial AdUcrtisT /
Allow me briefspace in which 10 oriticise a cTiticisml
Mr.. Lyons. IN the Gaseas Of January 10Th. makes 4
few m lea relation to cyclones. in which ID
materially differs FROM the standard descriptions Il
the encyclopedias. In the first place. be states thai
" most Of the cyclones that I have experienced. 4
read Of, have i velocity Of from three 10 five hundred
miles a day"
The encyclopedias, give their rate Of progressed
nj from one 20 Eve miles per hour, or 1rom twenty1
four to one hundred aud twenty miles per day, somo1
times exceeding this rate. Secondly. he states that
the following sentence, ~(quoting from another wri'erl
il = simply nonsense ''' The 4. y. Jordan was
very near the point whore the rotating wind crossed
it, ,wn track j. g., where the circle was completed.
II MIR. l.. will describe a series Of cycloidal circles
upon a sheet II paper, he will hud that there arc ~
least two points IN each circle, where bis pcncsl
- crosses it, own track, aud IL the said pencil -
supposed 10 describe the track q a current Of arr hc
will find that any vessel encOuEtering that carient
once, near the point II intersection, wal be very hpt
to find il, "lulling for a WHILE" (s she Is driven
out of is direct ooursel 60 encounter u, " again iron'
the same direction"
Now take a piece Of paper aud a pencil. Describe
on the paper according 10 any scale that you chooses
a circle. Draw on this circle two lines, al right
angles with each other. 40 as Go divide the circle into
four equal parts. Now call the four points where
the straight lines bisect the circular line, north, east,
south Ahu htNA ItNfNNAlNhANs ~ M 49,"
edge Of the circle at the point marked east, with the
head pointing TO the north. Let that represent the
direction Of the wind (for the time bcing). Ora" n
line from = point anywhere between east aud north,
across the circle. 20 represent the track OF the ~,
-. Hood, aud he will End that she had the wind
from the southeast and SOUTH and that Ms she
passed out. il was " with the wind from west To
SOUTH
l confess that / cannot see any connection what
ever between the storm Of November aud December,
and the one Of August last. One was from the south
and west, the other from the east. The August
storm was very isolated, and but sixty miles IA width
the one Of December We have every reason 20 believe
60 be Of great width and extent Still, | am thank
full that We have q circumstantial report Of the
August cyclone, as IL will be valuable for future
reference.
The effort made by the writer Of the article ON
- The Late Cyclone TO give us some information on
the subject Of storms, may have been in many re-
spects crude, and very rightly subjected him TO a
good deal Of criticism. But II attention has been
called thereby TO the subject of storms, and their
prognostics, aud theso initial efforts prepare the way
for more accurate reports, l for one hope he viii try
again. Critics should bc very careful to state facts.
and facts alone else they may fall into errors like
the one made by Hawaiian. in his criticism OF
Rev. Mr.. Coan's " Kilauea." where he gives us 60
understand that the area Of n circle one mile In di-
ameter is equal TO one-third Of the area of n circle
three miles in diameter NtYisEcroR.