336 Cuba Hurricane of October, 1844. 
but in the necessary abridgments of these, and of written state- 
ments received from shipmasters, I have endeavored faithfully 
to exhibit all that can serve to afford us any knowledge of the 
strength, extent and progress of the storm, and of the time and 
manner in which its winds“were successively exhibited. 
I will first submit such accounts of the storm as relate to 
the left hand side of the axis line, as far onward, in its course, 
as the south shore of Cuba, and including the adjacent portions of 
the Gulf of Mexico. 
At Belize, British —, lat. 17° 29’, lon. 88° 12’, [180 miles L. ?] the weather in 
ah ‘fina week in October, as stated by the master of the Gilbert Hatfield, “ was very bad ;” 
with squalls and heavy tains “very wild weather.” The mate thinks the worst of the 
ther was between the Ist and 4th of October. (This aa was in the Belize river, 
near the southeastern shore ef the peninsula of Yucatan, and under the immediate shelter 
of the knsaed if not the most elevated portion of Central pele J 
Mr. Lonswor ty, pilot at Belize, informed Capt. Goop that the effects of the gale were 
dideitiindon all the Honduras coast. Capt. ge —* at sigh 298% that the gale 
was heavy outside, and that several vessels dro 
a, Logbook of brig Maria L. Hill, at an ost “off C Sait, iat "190 51’, lon. 90° 33’, 
(380. miles L.?] “Oct.2d,pleasant. Oct. 3d this day ; received no cargo. 
Friday, 4th, strong Norther FE: ae twenty-four hours received no cargo. Oct. ye legit 
moderate ; wind still to the n 
13th. [This appears to AoW us ris left border of the gale. 
2b. At Grand Suline, (Bouche de Silan,) N. coast of Yucatan, lat. 21° 25’, lon. 88° 42, 
[360 miles L.,] the Betsey Hall, loaded with et, and “ay ee sea, went on shore 
Oct. 4th, during a heavy swell and imbedded in the sand. The ander Petron and Ar- 
pow also exes their anchors and went on shore ; the former mee nocked her isso out 
d sunk. Bec tnd apt: ) 
ea Royal Mail s r Trent, at anchor off Tampico, took a Norther on the night of 
Sept. 21st, and was rere to slip cables and proceed to sea; continued blowing from 
N.N. W, till 24th, with barometer from 29:80 to 29. 82. Returned to the anchorage and 
had ig try breezes between S. E. and E.N. E. till 27th, when the wind hauled to N.N. E. 
At4a.m. of the 28th,a Neos northerly vo set in, with no indication beyond the rising 
of the desler which ¢ ll second time, from N.N. W., with 
a heavy sea, sik the ork, and continued ae strong breezes on the 30th, —and fresh 
breezes s Oct. with fine ree the barometer ranging throughout the Norther, from 
30 in. to 30:14; mane rmometer from ahr. 
Oct. 2d, fresh breezes with dark vr clouds te the N. W.; at 8 a. m. anchored at Vera 
Cruz; bar. 30°15, wind increasing; noon, strong pa tier, 30-12; 4.p.m. fresh gales 
from N. N. W.; 6 P.M. proceeded to sea; 8 p.m. bar. 30-07, therm. 82°; midnight, heavy 
— with fuaeh sea. Oct. 3d. a.m. fresh breezes oe N.N. W., with thick rain and much 
; 8a. M. bar. 30-02; noon, 30-00, lat. 20° 7!, lon, 94° 29; 8p. am. bar. 29-98, range of 
sree 85° to 84° ; egies midnight heavy gales from N.W. Oct. 4th, strong gales this 
day from N. to N. N. W. with heavy sea from northward, the bar. fell in half an hour from 
29-98 to 29-90; 8 a. mt. bar. 29-90 ; noon, bar. 29-92, lat. 20° 14’, lon. 92° 40’, the 
came very high and came from N. E. ; [then 540 miles L.?] weather hazy and sky ws . 
copper-colored appearance, small scud flying fast; 8 P.M. bar. 29°92; therm , 84° to 8 
Oct. 5th, strong breezes and squally this day, from N. N. W.to N.; 8 a.m . 30-02; noon, 
39:02, lat. 21° 53’, lon. 90° 17’, [468 miles L. (?)] therm. 84° to 829, atwouphere still hazy, 
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* The profile elevation of this part of Central America, as the two aa is believed to be 
— five thousand feet. But both eastward, and westward, near the Lake of Nicaragua, and at 
he isthmus of Tehuantepec, the elevation is inconsiderable, a five hundred feet. 
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