The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-13

cyclones, during the months of August,
September and October, when the sun has
drawn after him, as 1t were, across the
equator, into the Northern hemisphere the
southeast trade winds of the South At
lantic, which brings about struggle with
the northeast trade winds, prevailing in
these seas for nine months of the year.
This struggle or battle-ground between
the West Indies and Brazil. is the birth
place of our much dreaded autumnal hur-
ricane or cyclone, with its disastrous re-
suits, extending its track as far as the
limits of the Gulf stream at times, as was
viewed by the writer in mid-Atlantic in
1871. while on board the German steamship
Cimbria, en- route for Hamburg, when, to-
gether with it's chief engineer, tied to the
lee rail, we watched the now well-nigh
spent cyclone handle our hugh iron vessel
like a cork; one moment looking down
into the deep abyss of angry waters from
the top of some billow, then down between
their SUBMITS wondering if we could ever
regain its top; a grand but fearful expert
ence.
If one during a recent cyclone had faced
the sun at its rising, watching his course
some moments, he would have observed
this course to be from left to right, and
If he remembered that in the hurricane
of 81 the wind came at night from the
northeast and the next morning out from
the southwest, in the course of the cy-
clone, resulting from our changed position
within the area of the circle, and in facing
the sun at dawn, this gyration of the wind
appeared from right to left, being against
the course of the sun. This law is in
variable in both hemispheres, but remem-
Der that l have stated that in the South
ern hemisphere the gyration of the wind
is in the opposite direction from it's gyra-
ton in the Northern hemisphere for the
reason that an observer facing the sun
there views the motion of the sun, nor
from left to right, but from right to left
Both differ in their gyration, but mark
you, both gyrate against the course of
the sun. Philosophers are nonplussed. The
problem is as yet unsolved why cyclones
and typhoons should always gyrate in the
one direction, but why should this gyra-
ton be Numerically opposite in the two
hemispheres? Subtle law with absolutely
no solution! Going farther into natures
mysteries, observe, and you will find that
all creeping vines or tendrils, winding them
selves around a pole or tree, invariably
wind themselves from right to left or
against the course of the sun. To re-
verse this, has been tried by many, but al
ways with negative results. The law of
the whirlwind and cyclone seems to influ-
ence the vegetable world as well south of
the equator they wind from left to right
or against the course of the sun.
The advance of the cyclone at some sea-
sons is slow, as was the one in 1880, which
wrecked the Spanish steamship India on
our coast. and lasted fully a week, keep
ing the writer within his hospital tent al
Sapelo quarantine station, waiting hour
by hour with guy ropes, pulling and tug
sing, day and night, for five or six days.
before the worst was over, positively cut
ting off a large portion of Blackboard Isl
and as If with a knife. The DEVILS din
and fury of the vortex of one of these CIV.
clones can only be fully appreciated by
one caught al sea in one, which was the
Jonah luck of the writer when
taking passage on board the City
of Augusta four years ago, bound
for Savannah. running within the
close embrace of a most terrific hurricane
off Hatteras, and laying hove to for Sc
hours, experiencing all the violence from
periphery to vortex. and vortex to peri
phery, chesred up by my old friends,
Capts. Henry Smith and Daggett, who.
cool as veterans. would at the hour as-
signed for meals say; Come. doctor, let's
see what the Lord has provided" Fancy
eating with the wind seyenty-six miles an