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of the Atlantic had, on the 28th, been dismasted by a NW. gale, 

 whilst the Great Western steamer, some degrees to the NW. of 

 these ships, though on that day and the next she experienced no 

 gale, encountered a heavy swell from the N.NE. 



It appeared from these, and some other data which were de- 

 tailed, that this storm moved N.NE. over the Atlantic, at the rate 

 of about twenty miles an hour ; that it had also a rotatory motion, 

 and that the centre of the circle passed very considerably to the 

 west of the British islands, so that it was only a segment of the 

 storm which swept over these islands. 



It was mentioned that, before the most furious part of the gale 

 reached England, and before the barometer reached its greatest 

 depression, a storm-wave had entered the Irish and Bristol Chan- 

 nels, and caused, in most of the harbours there, on the night of the 

 28th November, an unusually high tide. 



