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been blowing all day, before the storm came on, from the 

 S. E., and on the N. W. side of the storm from the N. W., 

 there appears no reason for the motion of the storm from 

 the S. W., but the uppermost current of the atmosphere, 

 which is known to be almost always moving in this direc- 

 tion. 



Philadelphia, March 13, 1839. 



Hurricane of the middle of August, 1837. 



160. St. Augustine, Aug. 19, 1837. On Tuesday, the 

 15th August, we were visited by a third gale of wind, of 

 equal severity with the two which preceded it, and which 

 continued until the afternoon of Friday, 18th August, when 

 it ceased. American paper. 



A severe Gale at Turk's Island on the \5th August. From 

 Lloyd's List. Narrative of Mr. Wilkinson, master of the 

 Calypso, in the storm of the middle of August, 1837. 



" On the 15th August, noon, the Calypso was, by obser- 

 vation, in lat. 26 47' N., and Ion. 75 5' W. ; the wind was 

 from the eastward, about east northeast; she had royals 

 and foretopmast studding sails set. Shortly after, we got a 

 heavy swell from the north eastward, and the wind gradu- 

 ally freshened till 9 o'clock, when only the double reefed 

 topsails, reefed foresail and mizzen could be carried. Dur- 

 ing the night the wind increased, and at 10 next morning, 

 the wind about N. E., the lee rail under water, and the 

 masts bending like canes ; got a tarpaulin on the main rig- 

 ging, and took the maintopsail in ; the ship laboring much, 

 obliged main and bilge pumps to be kept constantly going. 

 At 6, P. M., the wind northwest, I should think that the lat- 

 itude would be about 27, and longitude 77. 



" At midnight, the wind was west, when a sea took the 

 quarter boat away. At day dawn, or rather, I should have 



