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the left side of the cyclone. Barometer at 4:30 p. m. of 26th, 
29°72. At 730 a.m. of 27th, 29:'84.* See Track xxx of the 
Chart. 
The foregoing notices of storms of inter-tropical origin in the 
eastern Atlantic, may serve to show their analogies and relations 
to those previously traced in the western Atlantic, and in the 
North American states. Let us now pass westward in the same 
parallels, to the nearer portions of the Pacific Ocean. 
Gales of the Eastern Pacific, near the Merican Coast. 
_ Our direct knowledge of the paths of these gales is necessarily 
limited; but the interests of an increasing commerce, as well as 
of meteorological science, claim the notices which follow. 
1. The Joseph Butler, on or about the 24th of June, 1850, 
encountered a severe gale of wind, near lat. 16° N., lon. 107° W., 
[260 miles from the shore of Mexico,] which carried away her 
mainmast. Ihave no further accounts of this gale. 
tained much other damage. These winds denote a course of 
Progression corresponding to that of the hurricanes in the West 
Indies, and that the vessel was in the left side of the storm-path, 
_NtaGara’s Hurricane.—The Niagara was dismasted in a 
hurricane Sept. Sth, 1850, about ninety miles south of Acapulco : 
(lat. 15° 16’ N., lon. 99° 50’ W.] 
"he Diana, Sept. 11th, lat. 22° N., lon. 116° W., had a severe 
near to the axis line; the progression of the storm being still 
horthwesterly. Its course of progression from the Niagara was 
34° north of west; or W. N. W., nearly. Its rate of progress 
Was nearly twenty-three miles an hour ; allowing no error for the 
eS a dates, Part of the track falls on our Chart. See Track 
Vint, 
4. The Laura, Sept. 26, 1850, lat. 26° N., lon. 123° W., ina 
Severe gale was thrown on her beam-ends; lost cargo, &e. I 
have no further account of this gale. is 
5. The Kingston, from San Francisco for Panama, experienced 
4 severe gale on the Mexican coast, and was thrown on beam- 
ends, Oct. 1, 1850, in lat. 14° N.; and reports that the gale 
Swept the whole coast with great violence ; as may be seen in 
© Siicceeding statements. : 
Belgrade, from San Francisco for Realejo ; Oct. 1, fine 
breeze from W. N. W., and heavy swell from S.B. At 10 p.m. 
* From Signal Station Reports in Bermuda Gazette. 
