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on shore six miles southward of the bar.” T'wo other vessels 
were also wrecked at Oporto. At the Scilly Islands, entrance of — 
the English channel, “it blew a terrific hurricane” on the 9th. 
Foway, (Cornwall, ) Oct. 12th: The Julia, from Venice for Lon- 
don, experienced a dreadful gale on the 9th inst. at W. N. W.— 
This storm was generally heavy on the coasts of England and 
_ ___ Treland, and had increased to a hurricane from southeast, at Dub- 
lin, on the afternoon and night of the 9th. Several Pas were 
Stiven on shore by the gale, at the same period, on the east coast 
of England. At Elsineur, entrance of the Baltic, (lat 56° 2’, lon. 
12° 37’ E.) on the 10th and 11th October, a strong gale from S. 
_E.: the wind had been 8. E. on the 9th. This was probably . 
the same as the above gale of the 9th. On the coast of Cornwall 
it was also blowing a gale from 8. 8S. W. on the.12th and 13th ; 
apparently, another storm. : 
In the interior portions of England, the storms of this period — 
do not appear to have attracted notice. The register of Mr. 
Rogerson, of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, shows that 
the barometer attained a maximum of 30-37 Sept. 30th; and, after 
strong 8. W. winds a second maximum of 30°01 on the morning 
of Oct. 4th, which last could hardly have coincided with the ad- 
vancing front of the great American wave, the summit of which 
was then not greatly advanced from Newfoundland. * On the 
5th, 6th, and 7th, the winds were S. W. and thence to N. W.; 
on the 8th, 8. E. and 8. W., and on the 9th the barometer had 
fallen to 29:23 at 9 a. m., ane 29:17 at 3 ~.m., with the winds 
strong at S.; and the be. was but little higher on the 10th, with 
the wind ae S. and 8. W. Perhaps this depression may have 
been identical with the first Cuba gale, as it doubtless was with 
that of Shetland. 
Col. Rerp has favored me with a valuable account of the gale ~ 
of Oct. 9th and following days, as found in the log of H. M. 
S. Windsor, bound outward from the English charitiel of which 
the Sabjoindd is an abstract. 
Oct. 7th, a. Mm. wind N.N. W. moderate ; noon, lat. 49° 47', lon. 4° 23’ W. bar. 30 in 
P.M. wind 8. S. W., increasing. Oct. 8th, noon, lat. 49° 20/, lon. 7°, bar. 29°50 ; the whidbe 
24 hours very metettied weather and eT falling ; wind S. W., muitendy, and in- 
d had veered to N. N. W., coming in hard gusts with sudden in- 
termissions and barometer had fallen to 28-60 ; sent down small spars, double- reefed, &c. ; 
at 8 a. M. bar. 28°50, and weather clearing up to the eastward ; thought of making sail not- 
e bar. obs. at St. Johns, and on board the Prince Albert, lon. 38° 30’. 
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