eastern, which appears in some of the above European reports, * 
366 Concomitant Gales of the European Seas. 
withstanding the low state of the barometer. Saw a schooner close to us with a good 
spread of canvass. But the wind suddenly flew out from N. E. and back to E. S. E., then 
_E,, and we observed the water blown up like clouds of dust and the sea in frightful com- 
motio 
This took place at 1:30 p.m. ; the barometer having been 28-44 at noon, 28-35 at 
and lowest at 1 p. M. 23°12. It was now (1°30 P. M.) at 28-14, and before the can- 
brought the ship to, on starboard tack; 3p. m. bar, 28°60; at5 p. M. hurricane less violent, 
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is little doubt that she foundered. Oct. 10th, heavy gale from N. N. W. with a high sea; 
miles W. by N. of the Windsor, and was then running in the N. 
“W. wind or rearward portion of the second Cuba storm. This is 
not incompatible with the idea that these storms may all have 
pertained to the general area of a great barometrical depression, 
though divisible, at the earth’s surface, into two or three stormy 
vortices, which may have continued more or less distinct from 
each other, in successive localities. 
It appears, also, that the Severn for Liverpool, Oct. 13th, in 
lat. 48° 49’, lon. 16° 4’ W., encountered “a perfect hurricane,” 
With a tremendous sea. Likewise, the barque Providence, Oct. 
13th, lat. 49°, lon. 13°, had a severe gale, lost spars, &¢. This 
was the gale which the Britannia experienced, less severely, 
near the coast of Ireland. 
From the courses which we have seen pursued by the two asso” 
ciated storms in the Western Atlantic, I have supposed their fur- 
ther progress to have been on lines somewhat curvilinear, to 
Iceland or that part of the Atlantic which lies between Iceland 
and the British islands. Their direct identity or immediate conr 
nexion with the European storms already noticed, may be con- 
sidered as doubtful. If we suppose the Cuba storms to have ac 
quired, gradually, a southeastern progression in higher latitudes, 
before reaching the British islands, the difficulties of allowing 4 
partial identity might be lessened ; and, possibly, the wave-like 
propagation of the barometric oscillations, from different parts of 
the line of progress, may have induced some of the complications — 
of the barometric waves which serve to embarrass the inquiry a 
complications which are not uncommon in northern Europe 
uch southeastern progression might serve to explain the veering 
of the wind from the southern or southwestern quarter to the north- 
