230 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



in top gallant sails and gaff topsail ; at midnight, do. 

 weather; morning, breeze freshening; at noon, strong 

 breeze, with a very stormy appearance, the swell evidently 

 increasing; latitude observed, 31 37', Ion. per chronometer, 

 74 54' 30", barometer at fair. 



Afternoon of 16th, wind N. E. by E., steady; the sky 

 loaded to the eastward with heavy, sluggish clouds, and 

 apparently no distance over head. At 3, P. M., down royal 

 yards ; at 6, breeze freshening ; at midnight, strong gale, 

 with high cross sea, the mercury much agitated and inclin- 

 ed to fall. At 6, A. M., of the 17th, set the foresail again, 

 at noon very hazy round the horizon, with the appearance 

 over head as yesterday ; lat. 33 3', Ion. 75 9' ; barometer 

 fallen to change. 



Afternoon, wind E. N. E., with the same wild appear- 

 ance, and every indication of a dangerous change of weath- 

 er ; at 3, P. M., wore ship to southward, barometer still 

 falling, wind E., gale increasing. At daylight of 18th, in 

 fore and maintop sails, &c. At noon, heavy gale of wind 

 E. S. E., the sky as if closing around us, and having a 

 most dismal appearance ; barometer from stormy to change. 



Afternoon, heavy gale, with violent squalls and rain, 

 wind S. S. E. At 6, P. M., blowing a hurricane; wind 

 S. S. E. Same weather continued till midnight of the 19th. 

 On the morning of the 20th, the wind backed gradually to 

 the northward, with no abatement, and at noon the wind 

 was N. N. W., but not the least abatement no observa- 

 tion ; barometer as yesterday. At 1, P. M., of 20th, wind 

 at N. W. At 6, more violent, if possible. At 8, inclined 

 to moderate, and the barometer to rise. At midnight, still 

 dark and gloomy mercury rising fast. At 10, A. M., of 

 21st, a fine steady breeze from the westward. At noon, 

 lat. 34 38', Ion. 74 20', having made, since last observa- 

 tion, against wind and sea, 95 miles of northing, and 49 of 

 longitude ; barometer at fair. 



