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along the coast. The gale was far more severely felt at Macao and-Kum- 
sing-moon, where it is described as having been truly dreadful Canton 
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The narrative of Capt. Lynn, of H. C. S. Duke of Buccleugh, 
appended to his Star tables for 1822, contains accounts of four 
several tyfoons which were encountered by the convoy under H. 
M. 8. Swift, Capt. Hayward, which left Macao Roads on the 15th 
of June, 1797, bound homeward by the eastern passage. The 
first of these storms occurred on the 19th June, in lat. 22° 97 N.; 
lon. 117° 3’ E. The wind set in at N., and veered to N. E. by 
N.; but owing, probably, to the course of the ship, veered back to 
N.. een subsequently by N. W. and W. to S. Barometer, 29. 
The second was met on the 2d July, in lat. 19° 4” N., lon. 124° 
1y E., and ended on the 3d. The wind set in at N. E., and 
veered by N. and W., as on the 19th of June; the ship having 
been kept before the wind, probably as before. Barom. 28.77. 
The Swift is supposed to have foundered in this storm. 
The third tyfoon was encountered on the 8th July, in lat. 16° 
54’ N., lon. 126° 9 E. Barometer, at. lowest, 28.40. This gale 
commenced at N. N. E.; but the ship running to the southward, 
as before, the wind — veered to N. and N, N. W..,. and ence 
shifting, after a lull, to S. S. W. 
A fourth tyfoon was enieotiriterod on the 17th July, lat. 16° 54’ 
N., long. 126° 9 E., in which the wind set in at the same point 
as before, and veoted also in the same manner. Barometer, 28.55 
These and other facts had been the basis of my inductions, in 
relation to the tyfoons of China and the storms of the North Pa- 
cific ; and the voyages of Cook and others upon the coasts of Ja- 
pan and China, and the journals of whale ships in the Northern 
Pacific, had afforded good evidence that the same system of 
storms eagle in the North Pacific as in the North Atlantic 
