Left Border of the Antje’s Gale. 5 
12. New Orleans Barracks, La., lat. 30°, lon. 90° 9', Sept. 2d, wind N. E., Pp. M. rainy ; 3d, 
N. a Fm: nay Seenie Sth, N. E., cloudy; 6th, a. m, N, E., P.M, 1 8. Wey 
cloudy 7th, A.M. N. W., p.m. S. W., cloud 
3, Fort a La., lat. 319, lon. 93°, Sept. 3d, Sp gs fair; 4th, S., fair; bth, Ss. 
Pai 6th, S. E., cloudy ; 7b, S. E. Teed 8th, a , P.M. S., clou ay; 
With reference to the foregoing naitaats it is well to state 
here that the body of the hurricane passed over the southern 
part of the peninsula of Florida on the 4th day of September, 
on its route to Mexico. From the Ist to 4th a rain passed over 
part of Florida in a nearly opposite direction. 4 
Left Border of the Gale. 
BA Py oepeyer neigge Men. —The brig Rolla, from Glasgow, arrived this 
Ba sess ing touched at An hich 
was “Bocas sion 08 and at aa ine islands on the 2d and 3d instant. On sb con- 
trary it was a ‘obi calm. [We must suppose that this vessel first — tos latitude of 
Antigua and then ran to the westward in the usual way. Thus the s might pass 
down to the ae na more northern parallel, without being Gated i by the Rolla 
either before or after her arrival at Antigua. See Chart II.) 
5. We come next to the well kept log of H. M. S. Pilot, then on her passage from Ja- 
maica to Nassau, N. P., the full insertion of which our limits preclude, Loe Pilot was 
westward of Hayti on the second and third of September, when the gale passed her me- 
ridian, working up for the passage between Hayti and Cuba, with pra et variable 
as shewn by the following extract : “ Sept. 2d, a. m., wind N. E. ; out first reef of top- 
sails, set royals and flying-jib : Hee. Cupe maises [Ev end of Guba bore. Ny.28° 22° E., distant 
e k:- 3p M. 
90 
in royals; 3h 40m. set royals ; 3h M., Soles char 7P. M., wind S. W., in a ends- 
calm. Sopt. 3d, light variable winds, N. W. to E.; 5 a. M., a breeze from E 6 AM, 
E. b. 8.; 10 a.m s ES. Es Nom, Cap Main N29. $8; wid it fom Bs 
7. P.M, in woyela Bring: jib and reef in topsails, wore ship, in top gt. sails 9h. 50m. P. M., 
set fore-topmast staysail, ae jib, up foresail, lowered topsails to a oquélf’: 1th. 40m, 
in two cunt fore-topsail. Sept. 4th, - A. M. igre — set foresail, wind S. E. vary- 
inds 
Sth, from E. end of Cuba to Porting Island, end ue and moderath » from 8. to S.E. 
{I consider the changes of wind on the afternoon and night of the neoond as due to the 
influence of the gale in passing ; and the squally or cloudy weather on the ni ght of the 3d 
as due to the recurrence of the trade wind, as disturbed by the passage of the storm 
on the N. side of Cuba. 
— From the logbook of H. M.S. Ringdove,* sailing from Vera Cruz to i des 
erminos on the southern side of the Gulf of Mexico :—Sept. 5th, calms iable. 
Le in the Seis, lat. 19° 15/, lon. 95° 8’; p. m., winds northerly, hey 4 and 5; 
Sept. 6th, latter part of night calm, a. m. winds N. N. E., N. W. and westerly, lat. 19° 9, 
lon. 93° 31’, rp. m. wind W. N. W.,3; Sept. 7th, winds W. S. W. and S. W. by W., 3, lat. 
18° 37’ lon. 91° 45’; Pp. M., igh variable, 1, and calm. On the 8th the wind freshened 
fi with a heavy swell = S.E. on the 9th. [The storm appears to have passed 
the meridian of the Ringdove on the 7th, say ata considerable distance to the northward, 
17, At Vera Cruz, lat. 19° 12’, lon, 96° 04’, there was no gale at this period. 
18. At Tampico, lat. 22° 15’, lon, 97° 50’, 50’, the gale was not felt in any force, although 
this point was near the left centre of the storm. [Had we barometrical pal sla from 
logs of the Pilot and Ringdove, with those of other British in of war, were kindly 
Pec by Col. Ret, of the Royal Engineers, now Governor of Berm 
