8 Cape Verde and Hatteras Hurricane. 
88. Brown, Sept. 10th, nt 49° 45’, lon. 25°, lying to with strong gale 
from S. E.; about 4 v. mu. it fell déad calm i about half an hour, 
while rain fell in torrents ; 2 4:30 a sudden gust came up from the 
west, and continued to blow a be feet hurricane ; ship hove to under 
89. Barque Elizabeth, at Quebec, reports ; ais 1], lat. 47° 56, 
lon, 22° 07’, experienced a hurricane from 8. W. which proved to be 
a revolving storm. At midnight, wind veered from W. to W. N. W. 
At 2 a. M. being most violent, it blew away the close reefed topsails. 
The ship being laid to with head to the southward, escaped the vortex.* 
90. Avalanche, Sept. 10th, lat. 48°, lon. 20° 15’; at 4p. m. [civil 
time] gale very severe at 8. S. Bs brought the ship under a single top- 
sail ; [bound west] at 5 p. m. barometer 28: 50, was struck with a ial 
gust from N. W., and thence twice round the compass : 6 P. lying 
to under bare on oroineter 8°70; gale, after the crisis, waaay 
N. N. [N. W. nearly.] Sept. llth, at 8 a.m. wi 
N. W., and so far SRE as to allow aclose reefed main- -topsail. T 
91, "Rufus K. Page, in the gale, Sept. 11th, lat. 39°, lon. 17°, was 
struck by a heavy squall from the northward and dismasted. 
92. Barque Swan, from Lisbon, ep 12th I} lat. 36° 50’, lon. 
15° 25’, severe gale from E. N. E. round by S. t 
(93. William Ray, Sept. 11th, lat. 49° 10’, or 20° 30', hard gales ; 
at 4 p. m. furled all sails and have to, in a mountainous sea ; midnight, 
dreadful sea, ship lay on her broadside ; 6 a. . got before the wind un- 
der double reefed fore-topsail; water-logged; abandoned on 14th. 
The gale veered from S. by the W., to 
uterpe, Sept. 9th, lat. 48° 42, lon, 19° 30, severe hurricane, 
which came on at S. E. and abated at N, W 
95. Esther G. Barney, severe gale Sept. 10th, lat. 48° 04’, lon. 
18° 36’; threw over part of cargo. 
96. Nicholas Biddle, lat. 52°, lon. 19°, etch Sept. 14th [?], 
while lying to in a gale from N.N. 
96 a. R. M. steamer Andes, severe gale, §.S. W. veering to N. N. W.; 
lat. 51° 30’, lon. 18° 30’; barometer 28-48. 
97. Constantine, lost dette: top-gallant-masts, and sprung fore-topmnast 
ni gale from W.S. W., Sept. 14th [?], lat. 52° 34’, lon 
. Devonport, took the gale oo 10th, in 54°, lon. 22° ; continued 
ae A. M. of 12th, with heav 
9 ommerce, lost spars sik “eels in the gale, Sept. 10th, lat. 48° 
53’, lon. 13° 40’, 
100. Mar ary Glover, in gale from S, W., Sept. 11th, lat. 50°, lon. 14°, 
lost mainsail, with other damage. 
101. Susan § Sores sass 11th, lat. 55° 20’, lon. 15° 30’, in severe 
n bea 
gale. from S. fed shen m-e nds 5 lost mizenmast and one man. 
Returned to 
*Tt too ek 3 that é chips, when running westward ina jaicsiaily gale in 
these latitudes, thus in the right side of the storm- are hove to un- 
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ittingly on the peda 2 tthe mane as more convenient, or a view to av 
of the a, nb oe Sapien a | igh gare 
t Statement of Capt. Leach. ia gh eee or ; ; 
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