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166 Racer’s Storm of Col. Reid, Sept-Oct. 1837. 
and northern coasts of the Gulf of Mexico with great violence, 
and had passed from thence to the coast of North Carolina. In 
other words, this Norther of the Mexican coast had become, in 
due course of progression, an Atlantic storm. 
Racer’s Storm of Jamaica, Mexico and Hatteras, in September 
and October, 1837. 
On receiving the second edition of Col. Rem’s work, in Feb. 
1842, I found that his attention had also been drawn to the 
“Northers,” and that he had presented valuable data relating to 
two storms, the Racer’s hurricane of 1837, and the storm in 
which Admiral Sonano’s fleet was dispersed in 1780, both of 
which he viewed as being related to the proper Northers of the 
Mexican sea. On recurring to my records of the Home storm 
of Oct. 1837, for the purpose of completing these paragraphs, I 
perceive that this gale must have been identical with the Racer’s 
storm of Col. Rerp. This extension of its observed route serves 
to confirm the views which he then expressed ; while it becomes 
important as connecting a Norther of the Mexican coast with first 
a westerly, then an easterly progression, actually observed, and 
analogous in character to the known progression of the West In- 
dia hurricanes. (Chart I, track AY.) 
Col. Retp’s earliest account places this storm at Kingston, 
south side of Jamaica, on the 26th and 27th of Sept., where ves- 
sels were driven from their moorings in such manner as seems to 
show an easterly gale, veering southeasterly. H. M. 8. Racer 
took the gale at E. N. E. near the Grand Cayman on the 28th, 
Which increased to a full hurricane; noon of 29th, lat. 19° 43’, 
lon, 83° 23’; at 7 p.m. was hove on beam ends, dismasted, and 
righted with 54 feet of water in the hold; 9°30 p. m. again hove 
on beam ends, but righted immediately ; midnight, hurricane at 
its full height ; at 2-30 a. m. of 30th had veered to E. 8. E., still 
in full force; noon, lat. 20° 12’, lon. 84° 42’, wind E. S. E. but 
little abated. Oct. Ist, noon, lat, 22° 22, lon. 85° 36’, in Gulf 
of Mexico near Cuba; gale abating. H. M.S. Ringdove took 
the gale early on the 28th, blowing from the eastward, on the 
south side of Cuba, eastward of Trinidad ; 29th, increasing from 
the E.; lat. 21° 21’, lon. 82° 56’, scudding to the westward ; 
30th, hard gale from E. ; lat. 23° 13’, lon. 86° 32’, in the Gulf of 
Mexico ; 7:30 p. a. shipped a heavy sea, stove weather ports and 
