4e- 
Oct. 5th, a. m., gale continues; baromete oly vende Lae 
W.; séa running high and ship laboring sae :—P. M., strong spas from N. W. with a 
heavy cross sea. 
Oct. 6th, aA. M., winds moderate, from N. ms lat. a 52, 84° 21’. 
(Capt. B. ete this as an abstract of a atthe time. It eth the 
same phases of the gale on the 4th ei 5th as ee the Ang (6) and ma 0 (D; 
while the previous report of the wind’s veering “round the compass,’’ dur the gale, is 
also proved to be strictly correct. This statement shows, ass. a perfect continuity in the 
double gale, at this locality, and Rie aa indicate a detour in pe axis- 
second storm while in the Honduras ~ corresponding to the general system of progres- 
sion which is seen on Chart Il. The complete enti’ of the st eae with this 
ship, whose change of position was ak very eg but whose track a winds differ 
much in direction from those of the Norman (19), Pek remarkable.— Capt. Brown 
says, “the ship’s drift was about two knots an nie forming a kind of circle.” The di- 
ameter of this a may have been 39 to 40 miles. Capt. B. was in the Barbadoes hur- 
ricane on the 1 of August, 1831, and thinks this storm quite as bad, while it was of 
much longer Ba He thinks the ship must have foundered had she been on the oth- 
er tack.] 
118. cia Zaida, Sept. 27th, was near Cape Cruz, S. side of Cuba, in lat. 20° 12/, 
winds E. by N. to N. E., and continued to vary betwee oS and N. W. till night of 
Sept. 30th, ‘Silke with tosh gales from ety Ist, at A made Cape Antonio, E 
W. end of Cuba,] bearing N. N. W.; wind N. N. E., fresh aD and clear; noon, 
, lon. 30’; P. 
Oct. 2d, strong breezes N. by E.and pleasant; 6 a.m. N.E.by N.; 11. m. single reef- 
topsails; lat. obs. 22° 30’, lon. 85° 28’; Pp. m. commences strong from N. E., squally ; 
3 Pp. M. took in jib and spanker; 4 p.m. close reefed fore and main topsails and furled 
mainsail, reefed foresail; ends strong gales from-N. N. E.—Oct. 3d, took in fore topsail ; 
4 a.M, furled foresail ; sent down top gallant yards and hove to; gale still ye Ny. rj — 
a heavy cross sea from N. E. and o nN; a ship laboring hard; up N. W 
gale fi 
heavy avila with apa 4 3. A. M, set seclat esis £1 A. M. gale N. E. by N., 
urs 
ses.—Ott. 5th, 4 a. m. wind N. by W.; 7 a. m. N.N. W., squally, a heavy sea from N. 
E.; noon, lat. 23° 15’; p. m. fresh gales from N. N. W., hig a heavy sea from S. E., 
N. E. and dN, W..;2 P. ee aoe nsail; 4 Pp. Mm. wind N. N. W.; 8 p.m. 
N. W. by W.—Oet. 6th, a. Mm. wind N. W. by N., fresh breezes and fine weather ; noon, 
ble. 
MAN states that during the gale the Gulf Stream current, off Cuba, had be- 
come cBaiigad i its course, drifting the Zaida rapidly to the westward; so that on the 
— of vel 7th he fourfd himself off Cape Cartouche, in lon. 86° 40’. On the Ith of 
October, at 3p. Mm. he — up the -“ aervevers of he 4th off Cape Florida, in 
lat. i 40 [This positio , also, the extraordi 
check of the surface current of the Florida ‘treat; for these men were drifted off the 
Bank as early as the 7th. See case 43, ante. The Zaida rg had the double gale ; 
the second superseding the first, early on the night of Oct. 3d. 
_ Capt. rg of the Rebecca (20), er § ves a second o at Santa Cruz, began 
At 
n the S. E. quarter, and went round by the e westward, ending on oe 5th. 
10 A.M. of sh “had got to be very | heavy, d fl d i 
S. S. W.and W. S. W. ull4 P.M d, gradually abating. 
356. ripe bah from St. Juan de Los ino [N. side of Cuba, lat. 22° 37’, lon 
79° 40/,) reports that a wes severe gale of wind occurred at that place on the Ist of Octo- 
ber and continued until the 3d, commencing es N. to N. E, and ending at S. E., caus- 
‘on Patriot 
45c. Barque California, Sept. 30th, lat. obs. ‘Me SY Ton . 79° 34’; 2 p. m. fresh gales N, 
Ete, oe sea; 4 P. M. meeret: the topsails ; 10 r. M. wind E. N. E.— 
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