' | THE F 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
, 3 
Arr. L—On Three several Hurricanes of the American Seas 
and their relations to the Northers, so called, of the Guif of 
Mexico and the Bay of Honduras, with Rbanie illustrating 
the same; by W. 0. REDFIELD. 
- (Continued from p. 16.) 
Gale or Paco “the Gulf of Mexico in October, 1842. 
Tus storm appeared at the southwestern borders of the Gulf 
of Mexico at the close of September and beginning of October ; 
but from what direction it arrived in that region, does not clearly 
appear. We may suppose its previous course to have been west- 
wardly, like other storms of these latitudes; and on almost any 
hypothesis its route must have been, in part, on the nearly adja- 
cent portions of the Pacific Ocean and the gulf of Tehuantepec, a 
region which has long been noted for its tempestuous character.* 
From the region first mentioned, this gale appears to have 
moved in a northeastwardly or more easterly course through the 
Mexican sea, across the peninsula of Florida, and over the At- 
lantic Ocean, touching the Bermudas, till, near the 60th degree 
of west longitude, it becomes lost to our i present inquiries. 
* Vide Humsonpt’s New Spain; New York 4811, Vol. I, pp. 2 
The Pacific coast of Central America — seldom visited by our seat 
are unable to obtain reports from that re 7 
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