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full WSW. gales at 10 a. m., when the wind hauled to the westward. 

 This continued with a very fluctuating barometer rising to 29.67 at 

 10 a. m.. May 23, when the wind backed to S. and the barometer 

 dropped to its lowest, reacldng 29.42 at midmight, May 23. At tliis 

 hour a SW. Ijreeze sprang up with a slowly rising barometer grad- 

 ually veering to ENE. breezes. The barometer did not reach normal 

 until noon of May 25. 



On June 2 the barometer registered ver}" peculiarly. At 1 a. m., 

 reading 29.81, with SSW. breezes, it began dropping until at 8 a. m., 

 it reached 29.58, when a SW. gale was experienced. This hauled to 

 WSW. and then gradually to WNW. The barometer reached its 

 highest, 30.22, at 10 p. m. the same day, Avlien the WNW. gale died 

 down to a light WN^^^ breeze. The overcast, foggy, rainy weather 

 of 1 a. m. had completely cleared up by 10 p. m. 



