6 Right and Left Center of the Antje’s Gale. 
Tampico they might serve to show the true state of the storm at that point, which from its 
position on the eastern coast is sheltered from the force of the westerly winds, which con- 
stituted the left hand side of the storm.] 
After careful inquiry I cannot find that this gale appeared to 
the southward of the chain of islands which forms the northern 
boundary of the Caribbean Sea, nor in that southern portion of 
the Gulf of Mexico which is known as the Gulf of Campeche. 
We will now follow the course of the storm, directly in its | 
path of violence. 
Right and Left Center of the Gale. 
19. Our first report is that of the Dutch Schr. Antje, already mentioned as having been 
dismasted, Aug. 30th, in “dat, _ oA lon. sth “3 nal a violent gale from 'S and E.” [Per- 
h ; i.e. “ southward and 
e ao the phrase is often used by seamen. It is probable that the date is given in 
nautical time, and = more especially to the time of the casualty. Thus it may re- 
fer to the afternoon of the 29th, and to the latter part of the gale. This will agree better 
] 
20. At Turk’s Island, lat. 21° 30’, lon. 71° 4’, Aug. 30th, “heavy agg om S. to 
Ww.” oe 
21. The Brig Helen a beth i th d nig Se 
2d, at Rum Cay and Watling s Se: The latter island is in lat. 249, lon. 74° 28’, and 
the effects of the gale were here most disastrous ; not a house on the island but had been 
more or less sintoaaby snowed an ee most of them were in ruins 
22a. A Nassau account, already quoted, shows that the hurricane passed over the Ba- 
hama Islands on the 2d and 3d of September. The loss of life and property at these 
islands is represented to have been very great. 
A comparison of the above accounts and positions will show 
that the 'Turk’s Island date is given erroneously, perhaps in nau- 
tical time. These reports are sufficient, however, to show the 
arrival of the gale on the evening of Sept. 2d at the eastern por- 
tion of the Bahama Islands. From these islands to the center of 
the Gulf of Mexico the reports are sufficiently numerous and full 
for the objects of this inquiry. The next report, though much 
abridged, affords a good account of the access and progressive 
phases of the storm, first on the northern margin and then in the 
more central portion of its track; showing the direction and mod- 
ifications of the wind successively induced as the ship and the 
storm advanced westward in their of ooh and, in part, coin- 
_ eident courses. 
226. Ship St. Mary, Foster, for New Orleans, at noon of Sept. 2d was in lat. 27°, lon. 76°, 
{then in advance of the northern border of the gale,] “a favorable N. E. w 
peste sete to the southward.” . . “ Low fleecy clouds flew swiftly to the west ;” “a high 
any apparent cause, rolling seme from E.N. E.” On the morning of Sept- 
3d, pega centre of the gale then nearly as estward as the ship,] the wind Pay it 
the east sea had swelled to mountains, = sun erste silvery bright, and the clouds dis- 
played fiery copper tints. At 8 a.m. passed near the Hole in the Wall, (S. E. end of 
