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Hurricane of Manilla and Balasore in 1831. i 
October 23d, (Nautical time ) Jat. 9°17’ N., lon. 117° 16’ E. Wind. 
came out at southward and continued until 10 p. m., then died away and 
commenced from the sonia: with a heavy head sea.—Forenoon breeze 
from N. W. and clear weather. Lat. 9° 45) N., lon. 117° 25’ E. 
_ Oct. 24th.—Pleasant breezes from N. W. and hazy, steady weather. A- 
sea rolling from the northward. I suppose there has been a eo in the 
China sea which has not yet reached us.—Evening wind rapidly increas- 
ing and barometer —e from 29.75 “ 29,40. Midnight reefed topsails. 
—9. a. m. double reefed do.—barometer 29,20. Ends with Pere 
gale rs the éacuaed and heavy monchereene ter 29.10. Lat. 11° 51 
NV. lon. 118° 20’ 
Oct. 25th. —Heavy gale from W. 8S. W. pnbarvineler 29.05. Gale haul- 
ing to the southward. Evening — mE eH Made a ae — Wind 
at 7. p.m. from southwestward ; 1 p.m. from sou n us 
morning at 5 o’clock the wind came on at S. E. (ba api = it 29, 10) and 
. a perfect mre love t to under mizen staysail ;—barometer 
05— m. —7 a.m. 29. 8 a.m. 29.20. belt 
this fal of the an to be, in this latitude, very remarkable. 
This gale was on the 24th and 25th October, civil time, and 
from its peculiar features and double fall of the barometer, there 
appears something like the falling in of two hurricanes on the 
same track. It was, doubtless, in whole or in part, the same hur- 
ricane that visited Manilla on the night of the 23d of October, — 
and which is noticed by Col. Reid. The irregularities of the 
storm may have been caused by its passage over the Philippine 
Islands, the Panama being then off the Strait of Mindora, and 
about 210 miles from Manilla. I have deemed it not improbable, 
that this storm was the same that visited the Bay of Bengal on 
the 31st of the same month, and was so destructive at Balasore, 
and on the neighboring coast. The course from the Panama’s 
position.to Balasore is about N. 73° W.., and the distance, say 1920 
miles, which would give a rate of progression of 113 nautical 
miles per hour; which coincides with other storms which have 
pe been “eaaanified! It is important to ascertain if this 
torm crossed the Burman Empire, immediately previous to its 
: Freresten in the Bay of Bengal. , 
Panama’s Hurricane in Indian Ocean, January, 1832. 
In order to add to the stock of available facts for tracing the 
storms of South Latitude, I add the following account of a hur- 
ricane in the Indian Ocean, on the 25th of January, 1832. 
“ January 25th, (nautical time,) Lat. 20° 14’ 8. Lon. 80° 36° E. 
Strong baa and squally, with every appearance of a gale; barometer _ 
at noon 29.57, having fallen from 29.80, At 1 p. m. barom. 29.50;— 
