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it did at 1 p. m. on the 5th, we were ace twenty miles east of the Lema; 
where we were when it ended, it is hard to say, as we saw nothing till 
south; but with us it veered to the westward round to the south. It was 
fortunate for us that it veered to the westward; for had it ae oo wae 
ward, we should most likely have been driver on shore am 
ands, as we could not have been more than fifty miles off the land al at 
‘ ae, on the 6th. cceaeidged Srom the Canton Register of August 
_ On the reduced chart which is given herewith, the tracks of the 
Lady Hayes and the Levant are laid down by estimate, from the 
printed accounts. The small dotted circle B, surrounded by the 
storm arrows, is supposed to indicate the position of the centre of 
the storm at the time the Raleigh was overset ; and the position 
of the latter should be marked somewhat nearer this circle, ac- 
cording to the lat. and long. of the Raleigh on the 5th, which 
Col. Reid has given in her log. The course of the storm appears to 
have been N. 72° W., and its centre is supposed to have been op- 
posite the Raleigh, about 8h. 20m. a. m. on the 5th; but this cannot 
be ascertained with precision, as the indications of the barometer 
do not appear to have been closely watched and recorded _— 
this terrific period of the storm. 
_ Having shown the rotatory character of these tempests, I con- 
sider the depression of the barometer which attends them, as be- 
ing due to the rotative action ; and the point of greatest depression, 
as indicating the true centre or axis of the storm. 
Seay the evidence now before us, we arrive at the following 
am "That the Raleigh met a gale which set in with the wind at 
N. eee peed ae the Bi. to S. B. and 
2. That at the harbors and roads “ inside,” irae Kumsing- 
‘moon; &c.) aswell as at Canton, the gale occurred at a later pe- 
riod ; and the wind also set in at North, and veered to B. and S. 
E., in a manner similar to that reported by the Raleigh. 
3. That with the ship Lady Hayes, off the islands near Macao, 
the wind also set in at North; but the ship steering S. E. by E. 
under a press of sail, (and doubtless falling off with the heavy sea 
from eastward, ) the wind, towards the middle of the gale, began 
to veer towards the West; whence tt drew round to east to- 
wards the close of the gale. ‘ , 
