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it did at 1 p. m. on the 5th, we were about twenty miles east of the Lema ; 

 where we were when it ended, it is hard to say, as we saw nothing till 

 the morning of the 7th, when we made Mondego Island. We hardly 

 think we could have had the gale so heavy as those inside ; and what is 

 most extraordinary, the wind with them veered to the eastward round to 

 south ; but with us it veered to the westward round to the south. It was 

 fortunate for us that it veered to the westward ; for had it veered to east- 

 ward, we should most likely have been driven on shore among the isl- 

 ands, as we could not have been more than fifty miles off the land [?] at 

 8 p. m. on the 6th." — Abridged from the Canton Register of August 

 \Qth. 



On the reduced chart which is given herewith, the tracks of the 

 Lady Hayes and the Levant are laid down by estimate, from the 

 printed accounts. The small dotted circle B, surrounded by the 

 storm arrows, is supposed to indicate the position of the centre of 

 the storm at the time the Raleigh was overset -, and the position 

 of the latter should be marked somewhat nearer this circle, ac- 

 cording to the lat. and long, of the Raleigh on the 5th, which 

 Col. Reid has given in her log. The course of the storm appears to 

 have been N. 72° W., and its centre is supposed to have been op- 

 posite the Raleigh, about 8^. 20m. a. m. on the 5th ; but this cannot 

 be ascertained with precision, as the indications of the barometer 

 do not appear to have been closely watched and recorded during 

 this terrific period of the storm. 



Having shown the rotatory character of these tempests, I con- 

 sider the depression of the barometer which attends them, as be- 

 ing due to the rotative action ; and the point of greatest depression, 

 as indicating the true centre or axis of the storm. 



From the evidence now before us, we arrive at the following 

 facts : 



1. That the Raleigh met a gale which set in with the wind at 

 N., veering round hy the E. to S. E. and South. 



2. That at the harbors and roads "inside," (Macao, Kumsing- 

 moon, &c.) as well as at Canto?i, the gale occurred at a later pe- 

 riod ; and the wind also set in at North, and veered to E. and S. 

 E., in a manner similar to that reported by the Raleigh. 



3. That with the ship Lady Hayes, off the islands near Macao, 

 the wind also set in at North ; but the ship steering S. E. by E. 

 under a press of sail, (and doubtless falling off with the heavy sea 

 from eastward,) the wind, towards the middle of the gale, began 

 to veei' towards the West ; whence it dreiv round to South, to- 

 wards the close of the gale. 



