212 Raleigh's Tyfoon of 1835. 
_ August 4th. 
9 a.m. barom. 29. _ Wind N. W. ‘Fine wea eatin 
4 p.m. 29.70 N. by W. Moderate breeze. 
August 5th. 
9.8; m...t.*" 29.62 Wind N. and N. W. Fair Weather. 
eS ee ** unsettled—Rain and fresh breeze. _ 
i p.m. > 29.37 aE 5S og | hard and in heavy gusts. 
August 6th. P 
2 lag 29. 34 Wind N. E. blowing hard with heavy rain. 
am =~ 9.51 ; 
Hava. = 09.58: S.E. blowing hard ;—moderating. 
& poem =a: 2990-5 & Be 
iho.m.:. was ." 8. E. , oe 
Aue cust 7th. 
8a “29.94 Wind S. E. Cloudy. a ae From the Can- 
ton Bie 
On Wednesday the 5th inst. a Tyfoon swept over the city of Canton. 
It began in the evening and continued throughout the night and the next 
day, blowing its best about 2 o’clock in the morning. The damage done 
by the Tyfoon at Canton is small, but not so at Kumsingmoon, : ‘Macao, 
and elsewhere on the coast. —Canton Paper. 
The American ship Levant, Capt. Dumaresq, which arrived on. 
the 7th of August, the day after the gale, came in with royals set, 
from Gaspar Island, in fourteen days, having had light winds all 
the way up the China sea, and did not feel the tyfoon. This im- 
portant fact is stated in the Canton Register of August 11th. 
Extract from a private letter from on board the ship Lady Hayes, 
which left Mac ao Roads a day or two before the sto torm, and returned to 
the 
“Early on ‘the morning oF the 5th, Soflseried indications of bad 
weather. At 10.a. m. the wind “Sealey a a from thes same quarter 
it had been for the last twenty four hours, viz. north; e thought it 
best to turn her head back again to look for 4 ves t 
ad about thirty five miles off the land. We carried a press of sail until 
n, when we found we had too great a distance to run before we could 
north, we were desirou of ntti as far off the lan as possible, expect- 
ing the wind round to the eastward, there being a ee tremendous swell 
from that quarter. At 4 p.m. it was blowing in sereue gusts, and we 
Sh. 30m. the wind began to veer to the west, but continued to blow 
as hard as ever, till midnight, when it drew round to south, and moderated 
a ee It continued to blow hard from that quarter until noon of the 
6th, when it moderated fast, and we e began bending other sails in room of 
those that were split. When the gale commenced, which we consider » 
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