From THE "Norti-Cumxa Dany News" or ApriL 22, 1869
We have to acknowledge a small book entitled "Notes on Revolving Storms, by S. S. Vassallo. Capt. Vassallo is an olhcer of much experience in ie American Navy, but now attached to the Imperial Maritime Customs service is im command of the revenue vessel Huashing. His "Notes on Revolving Storms" is a manual which cannot fail o be of use to those officers and seamen Who have not opportunities of carrying With them the various voluminous works Which treat of the law of storms. The compilation was made by" Capt. Vassallo to show young seamen—"The necessity of seeing information on these important matters, and to furnish them With simple and general rules by which they can determine whether the storm "which they are involved is only an ordinary blow, or one of those revolving gales; and, M ihe latter, how to avoid If caught too late, how to act in the hour of need with decision, so as o prevent being drawn into its Vortex." Capt. Vassallo has rendered Wood Service by his painstaking labour on this manual
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.