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August tk. 



5 a. m. " 29.34 Wind N. E. blowing hard with 



heavy rain. 



9 a.m. " 29.51 " S. E. do. do. 



lla.m. " 29.58 " S. E. blowing hard mod- 

 erating. 



5 p. m. " 29.70 " S. E. do. 



11 p. m. " 29.85 " S. E. do. 



August 7th. 



8 a. m. " 29.94 Wind S. E. Cloudy. 



Compiled from the Canton Register. 



On Wednesday, the 5th instant, a typhoon swept over the 

 city of Canton. It began in the evening, and continued 

 throughout the night and the next day, blowing its best 

 about 2 o'clock in the morning. 1 The damage done by the 

 typhoon at Canton is small, but not so at Kumsingmoon, 

 Macao, and elsewhere on the coast. Canton Paper. 



Extract from a private letter from on board the ship 

 Lady Hayes, which left Macao Roads a day or two before 

 the storm, and returned to Kumsingmoon, after the gale. 



" Early on the morning of the 5th. we observed indica- 

 tions of bad weather. At 10, A. M. the wind freshened a 

 little from the same quarter it had been for the last 24 

 hours, viz. north ; so we thought it best to turn her head 

 back again to look for shelter, fancying ourselves to be 

 about 35 miles off the land. We carried a press of sail 

 until noon, when we found we had too great a distance to 

 run before we could get into shelter, and expecting it would 

 get so thick that we could not see our way ; so we turned 

 her head to sea, and clapped on as much sail as she could 



1 The reader will note particularly, that the wind at Canton was most 

 violent just about the time the barometer was lowest at Macao, and that it 

 was blowing towards Macao. 



