1864.] 



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[Lesley. 



The steamer left Liver- 

 pool, with fair weather, on 

 the 9th, and encountered a 

 smart blow in the Irish 

 Channel, but ran along the 

 Irish coast in fair weather, 

 touched at Queenstown for 

 the mails, and passed Fas- 

 net Rock Light in the night 

 of Sunday, January 10th. 

 It began to blow from the 

 westward here, and con- 

 tinued to blow from that 

 quarter, dead ahead, with 

 variable violence, until 

 Thursday night, January 

 21st. The steamer reach- 

 ed Halifax, in the face of 

 light west winds, Monday 

 evening, January 25th, 

 and Boston, Wednesday 

 afternoon, January 27th, 

 after a voyage of nineteen 

 days. 



The accompanying wood- 

 cut shows the course of the 

 steamer and her position 

 each noon between Fasnet 

 Light and Halifax. In 

 the first eight days, that is 

 to say, from Sunday noon 

 to the second following 

 Monday noon, the Canada 

 encountered six distinct 

 gales, the sixth and last 

 raging through Sunday 

 night with such violence 

 that the steamer could 

 barely be kept to the 

 wind ; and the officers as- 

 serted that no sailing ves- 

 sel could have lived. 



At the beginning of each 

 gale, the wind came from 



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