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air cooler to the — heavenly bodies much clearer. Oct. 6th, moderate breezes from 
N. by W. and fine, atmosphere clear and dry, bar. 30-02 to 30-05, - 22° 31’, lon. 879, 
therm. 83° to 829.— vrabesiged from journal pr I. F, Boxer, R. N., Commander, received 
from Col]. Rerp, February, 1846. 
[From the time of acai Vera Cruz, this steamer appears to have experienced bad 
weather almost ap AP ope _ that which visited Jamaica and the 8. side of Cuba, 
which remitted on the 3d; and on the 4th, this vessel “Coreen had begun to encounter 
the swell and blow es to oe Cuba dg which abated on the 5th.] 
3. Ship Clyde, laden = mahogany, left Omoa, {south part of the bay of Honduras, 
lat. 159 45, “tt 88°,] and not been heard uf; but part of her cargo was found, after 
the gale, near the Nort “to rt st lat. 18° 40’, lon. 87° 15’, [170 miles L.] 
Banca, which, as we have seen, se et wi two previous hurri- 
canes, left Belize Oct. Ist, and has never been heard from si 
Ship Gossypium, from Liverpool for New Orleans, on pas ia 0A 5th Oct., lat. 20° 
n 5 
fom ined which had lost spars i sails in the hurricane. [The phrase “ round the 
s,”’ is used somewhat vaguely by seamen. This ship being in the left center of 
the gale, probably had the same succession of winds as the Angola and Openango. (Nos, 
and 7.) ] 
om Brig wr aad hs Friday, Oct. 4th ith | t fi E.S.E 
At noon both masts went over the side, carrying wit the em bulwarks, &e. Atl P 
shipped a Sites vi sea, ee ch washed away quarter eased with the captain and one sea- 
man; at 3 p. mM. a little es = 4 * om increased in a hurricane from N. W. At8 
A. M. of the 5th, blowing a m W.N. W.; ote on jury-masts, for 
Jamaica or Grand Cayman ; lat. at noon by obs. 20° 15’, Jon. "e20 [Probable position 
on the 4th when the gale shifted, lat. 20° 30’, lon. 83° 10’, or 30 sites left of axis line ; the 
brig having been afterwards driven with a N. W. gale, and being on or near the axis line 
at — of the 5th. ia 
6. Brig dismasted in the hurricane, about 50 miles off the west part of the 
lile of Pines, Fh lat lat. re 45", lon. 83° 40’, 69 miles L, ay on the nigh of Oct. 4th. At 8 
A.M. of the 4th, the ga 
till dismasted the wind from E N.. E., veering oN. N. Ej : — heaviest from 6 to 11 P. M., 
and continued to veer from N. N. E. to N. W., mer which it began to moderate. " 
os 8 saan’ in Pa gale, was observed at 29 in 
7. Brig Openango, from Jamaica; on the sexier oe Oct. 4th, it eA blowing 
from * a. cme increased cae me og hauling to the northward. Had 4 
heaviest of the h ane from N,N. E. t ., between the art of 5 and 10 p. 
of the ro lat, a0 Bs, lon. 83° 30’, [74 aan i “ continued blowing during the igh 
and veering to the N, w., gradually abating. Lost — sprung a leak, &c. When 
. Ship Hermann, for New Orleans, was dismasted in ae hurricane, Oct. 4th, on the S. 
sideor Cuba. 2 the 5th, saw a brig 150 miles from the land, totally dismasted, [(?) lat. 
19° 50’, lon. 84°, 
9. Shi eveioth encountered the storm on the night of Oct. 4th, the wind blowing a 
oe 88 from ue west tward. (* On the Bera the gale increased to ena and 
org its violence. e succeed- 
“tt i found that the ship had pron ng a leak all took tot ponte ha the ship 
abe went down. e boats then pulled a mo sea; one boat reached 
Sisal on he coast of great in six days; another was picked up by a brig bound to 
Vera Cruz; the set serge: the officers and most of the passengers, was never heard 
w that the ship was near the W. end of Cuba, in the Yu- 
catan channel or a labial: borders of the Gulf of Mexico.] 
* The - solution * this, _. - that the wind was blowing from the westward at on 
n the ship wi s dismasted ; less we assume ie the wo! rd “westward” to be an erro 
time w 
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