On the same day, the United States was visited by
a hurricane, leas remarkable for its severity, though that was great, than for the vastness of the area over which it swept. Altogether, we are told, more than a hundred vessels were wrecked, and we hear of these disasters at once from the extreme north of New England and from South Carolina. The gale appears to have extended inwards some distance, since it damaged the Centennial building in Philadelphia, but how far it reached in that direction we have no information. At this season, equinoctial gales are, of course, to be looked for ; but it is not often that a storm sweeps at the same time a coast thousands of miles in length. The Americans are paying much attention to meteorology, and -we shall be curi- ous to learn whether observation in this case confirms the theory that the birth-place of American storms is in the Rocky Mountains.
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