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falling barometer ; whicli increased to a heavy tjplioon at 

 N.N.B. ; veering to N.E. and E.N.E. ; bar. at 8 A. m., 29*60; 

 noon, 29-45; 8p.m,, 29-60; midnigbt, 29"04, and typlioon in- 

 creasing in violence. At 3 a. m. of Aug. bih it had veered to 

 E.S.E., still increasing; bar. 28*50, and falling. At 5 A. M. 

 typhoon blowing from S. E, ; and at 6.30 A. M., bar. fldling rap- 

 idly from 28'30 to 28'20, commenced throwing overboard the 

 guns and shot. At 8 A. ivr., the force of the hurricane still in- 

 creasing; and at 9.30 A. M, the ship went over; the masts and 

 bowsprit went by the board, and the ship righted, with four feet 

 of water in the hold, in lat. 20"^ W, Ion. 119'' 18' E. At 1 P. M. 

 of the 5th the typhoon was blowing from S.S.E. and had mod- 

 erated a little. From 6 to 7 P. M. more moderate, but strong 

 gusts of wind and a heavy sea from the southward. 



It appears by the direction and phases of the wind that the 

 Raleigh w^as on the right or northerly side of the center-path of 

 the cyclone, and that at the crisis of the gale the center passed 



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