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158 Merican Nag ther and Bermuda Gale of Oct. 1842. 
Brig Caspar Hauser enilba from Matanzas, Oct. 2d; took the gale on the 5th, lat. 
30°, lon. 80°, and on the 6th it increased to stomplete hurricane. During the night the 
sprung a leak. On the 7th, while the gale a — blowing, the crew were taken off by 
Capt. Seudiaegus of the barque aa h also suffered in the gale. The C 
Hauser had the at N. E., veeri ah [This shows the brig to have been in the 
left side of the a or N. W. of es axis 
Schr. Maria had the gale from northeastward ; was hove on beam ends on the eon 
lat. 30° 30’, lon. 80°. ™, 
‘ Virgi di ted in the gale and abandoned on the 7th, in lat. 30° 30, 
lon. 78° 36’ (2) Gale. — on. 5th, from = E., and continued i are till noon ; 
th en moderated, N. E., 
continued till noon nee ie bth; when, being water-logged, the officers ona crew took to 
38. Brig Florida Banca, Oct. 4th, had the wind at E. N. E., veering to E. by S.; lat. 
at noon, 30° 10’, lon. 79° 15’. Oct. Sth, - = bedalae severe ; lat, 31° 44’, lon. 780 25'; 
p. M., gale E. N. E., veering to N. E. 6th, had the very hardest of the gale, from N. 
N. E.; lat. 31° 31’, lon. 79° 38’. Oct. — wind ae lat. 31° 30’, lon. 79° 3’; wind aba- 
ting and hauled to the se Re ah rnal of Capt. ELDRIDGE.) 
39. Brig Peru, from New Orleans for Dehidaoeis took the gale in lat. 32° from E. N. E, 
which ee Wane Ww: 
A. Lancaster, for Savannah, took the gale Oct. 5th, ten miles south of Tybee 
light, flat. 32] carried away spars, and was drifted as far south as lat. 28° 30’, and was 
in seven fathoms water off Cape Carnavaral. 
41. At St. Mary’s, Georgia, lat. 30° 44’, Jon. 81° 42’, during = = the waters rose ve- 
rw 
. At Savannah, Georgia, lat. 32° 8’, lon. 81° 10/, Oct. ith, mal E., fair. On the af- 
ternoon of the 5th, the wind commenced blowing hard from 8. E. and E., os rain, until 
about 4 or 5 p. m., when it shifted to N. E e night to a 
hurricane, — continued with torrents of rain, to 5 or 6 + M. of the 6th. is the 7th, 
wind N. E., 8th, the same. 
43. At oa (S. C.) lat. 32° 42’, lon. 79° 56’, Oct. 4th, wind E., cloudy, barom 
ter 30°15. Oct. 5th, N. E., cloudy, the weather giving indications of an approaching ri 
barometer i 
E., which a ae the Pop! Oct. 6th, in the course of the morning, the Mat 
chenged to N. E. and N. N. E., and continued to blow a gale throughout the day, with a 
xery high tide; “tpealalthip enon Oct. 7th, 7 a. m., wind N., fair; ter 30°15; 
Cloudy. [The high state of the barometer at Charleston, shows a proximity 
a the border of the storm, and perhaps an unusual pressure on this border.] 
44. At Wilmington, (N. C.) lat. 34° 18’, lon, 78° 2’, the steamers for Charleston were 
detained in Anis during the 6th, on account of the ‘ib. 
rig New Hanover, two days from Savannah, for Philadelphia, had a tremendous 
_ gale gots me to oe E.; laid to 18 hours without canvass, and drifted 150 miles south- 
= of Sav 
46. Ship pore: left Charleston for Boston on the 3d Oct., and on 6th and 7th, had a gale 
fron N. E., which ae! a perfect hurricane: was blown from Cape Romain, a: t 33° 1," 
lon, 79° 24',] to lat. 3 
47, Schr. John priest from Newbern for Barbadoe d on the 8th, under a 
storm staysail ; one man taken off the bottom on the ith, in Jat. 33° 1’, lon. 77° 40! 
48. Bri « Phileas n 6th Oct., in a gale off Cape Fear, was knocked down on her beam 
“~— iy partly dismasted. 
9. Brig Hector, Oct. ag 33°, lon. 76° 25’, in a gale from S, E., [?] sprung the main- 
i lost sails, bulwar 
50. Brig Orray Taft, pa ae for Providence, on the 4th Oct., was in lat $20 
43’, lon. 779 11’. On the 7th, 8th _ 9th, experienced heavy gales from E. to N.N. E. 
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