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ted line which crosses Formosa, thus taking the wind first at N. E., 
or E. N. E., she should have kept to'the wind, with her head to the 
northward. But if her position had been nearer the dotted 
line which crosses Luconia, taking the wind first at N. W., she 
should first have brought the wind on her starboard cauinter: and 
subsequently have bore away, as the wind veered by the west. 
Some further notices of tyfoons may now be added, to show 
that the results just noticed, are not peculiar to this storm alone, 
and that other tyfoons of the China sea pursue a acalar oes, 
and exhibit the same rotative action. 
Canton Tyfoon of Aug. 3d, 1832. 
At Macao the wind set in Re the north, and reached its greatest 
: height about I p. m. ; continuing with the same Eo eve till 5 p. m., when 
it veered suddenly to ‘the pins A but with diminished strength. ‘When 
the fury of the gale was exhausted, the quicksilver rose at ‘the rate of 
three tenths per half vis ur. Baromet ter Aug. a. mM. p.m. 
29. ug. —5 p. m. 27. 88, Other land barome- 
ters. differently ative’: “fal to 27. 96 and 28 
At Cap-shu e gan at N. and N. W., ‘between which 
= it blew las tremendous violence ; shifting, towards the co nclusion, 
. whence it blew more moderately. The barometer, nm the early 
pat | fell to 28. 20. 
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e American ship Don Quixote left on the day before the tyfoon ; ; 
and returned on the 5th with loss of mainmast. 
Since the tyfoon, the British brig John Biggar, from Manilla, has come 
in dismasted. The Sp anish brig Veloz, also from Manilla, has arrived 
with loss of mainma 
A letter from the etdinidier of the Dutch ship Fair Armenian, which 
‘foundered about thirty ary westward of the Grand Ladrone, says :— 
“On the evening of the inst. we made the Grand Ladrone, and on 
the morning of the 3 it came on a tyfoon blowing off the land ; this 
ped and broke our rudder, and carried away a great part of the bulwarks. 
The gale was at its height about 4 or 5 p. m., and after dark gates 
moderated.” 
The Edmonston, Caledonia, ee and. ialy have come in with- 
‘aledonia.on the paca ° W., lon. 113° 50’ 
E. experie need a strong ga le from ag W. and S., with a 
heavy and confused sea. | The aati ts Fell | . 28, 50. The Edmonston, 
on the same day, when within seventy miles of the land, felt the same 
weather, which brought her under bare poles for four hours 
occa cig the weight of the tyfoon, which in Canton and Wham- 
pao ranged from N. to N. E., was felt about 4 or 5 p. m.; the barome- 
ter standing at Canis About 6 p. m. the ped ak rose and the e gale 
= to abate. 
Vou. XXxvV.— 
