‘Racer's Galeof Jatnaioay Mexico; Spo; Segueled. 1837. 167 
washed away the binnacles. Oct. Ist, strong gales; 10 a.m. 
moderating, set close-reefed main-topsail ; noon, lat. 23° 16’, lon. 
87° 48’, wind E. S. E., under main-topsail, trysails, and fore-stay- 
sail; morning of 2d, fresh breeze and cloudy ; breeze going down 
On all this route the phases of the wind show the several ob- 
servers to have been on the right hand side of the storm’s axis.* 
I find that the schr. Active encountered this hurricane on the 
1st of Oct., 47 miles N. of Sisal, (about lat. 22° 10’, lon. 90° 
12’,) which lasted thirty eight hours, or, probably, till the morn- 
ing of the 3d. The schr. Pomona which left Sisal m company 
with the Active, was dismasted by it. On the 3d, the schr. Un- 
ber, from New Orleans, encountered this gale in the Gulf of 
Mexico and was driven by it to Galveston Island, where we shall 
find it on the 5th. The schr. Cora for Tampico, had the gale 
severe, in lat. 24°, lon. 93°, which lasted from the Ist to the 6th 
of Oct., and was greatly injured. On the 2d, 3d, and 4th, the 
storm was at Metamoras, on the Rio Grand del Norte, lat. 26°, 
lon. 97° 30’, and along the coast, where it drove the vessels on 
shore and prostrated all the buildings at the usual port of the Rio 
Grand. At Galveston, lat. 29° 20’, lon. 95°, the hurricane drove 
nearly all the vessels ashore on the 5th, where they were left 
high and dry, as in the neighborhood of Metamorass ‘The great 
influx of the sea on this coast, during the gale, is evidently due 
to the force and extent of the easterly winds on the right hand 
side of the storm; which, from the vicinity of Metamoras, was 
recurving enstsraraly f in its course. 
That the storm did not proceed far into the interior in a north- 
westerly direction from the Gulf of Mexico, is shown by the 
meteorological reports to the Surgeon General, from Fort ‘Towson 
aud other western posts. In following its course eastwardly, we 
find that on the Sabine river, in lat. 30° 51’, lon. 93° 33’, the 
storm, from N. E. and E., wasat its height on the night of the 5th, 
and continued through the 6th. At New Orleans the gale or hur- 
ricane was severe on the 6th, hardest at evening, blowing from 
S. E. to S., and extending to Baton Rouge and Natchez ; at 
which places it was easterly, and E. N. E., veering north.t At 
* For logs and diagram, see Resp on the Law of Storms, 2d edition, pp. 138-146. 
¢ Iam indebted to Dr. Henry Toorry of Natchez, for regular files of his valu- 
able meteorological observations, which I have found hi hi y useful in these in- 
quiries: also, to Professors Loomis and Nooney for their observations at Hudson, 
Ohio. 
