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barometer began to fall. "At 9 p. m. it fell calm, and continued so for little less than an hour, 

 when the wind came out again suddenly from the N.W., with terrific violence, blowing, if any- 

 thing, still harder than from the E.S.E. Barometer, when lowest, 28.97, at which it arrived 

 very rapidly, and when it commenced rising it did so in the same manner." 



The position of Lloyd's Harbor (Peel's Island) is in latitude 27° 05' N., longitude 142° 16' E. ; 

 and the above report affords data for approximating its route on the chart. This cyclone evi- 

 dently completed its recurvation while passing over the Bonin Islands. 



CYCLONE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 



Some observations, made in a storm-path of the North Pacific ocean, are afforded by the log- 

 books of the ships Mississippi and Southampton, while on their return from Japan to the Sand- 

 wich Islands, and by other reports which have been obtained. 



These two ships of the squadron left Simoda on the 1st of October, 1854, and throughout the 

 2d they encountered a swell from the S.E. On the 7th, when near latitude 36° N., they were 

 overtaken by a cyclone, which increased with the Mississippi to the force of a hurricane. 



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"MISSISSIPPI," OCTOBER 7, 1854. 



The Southampton, early on the 6th, had the wind eastward, force 4, and increasing to 6 at 

 noon, with rain ; latitude 35° 28' K, longitude 146° 43'E. At midnight the wind had veered 

 to S.S.E., decreasing in force. On the 7th it had veered to S.S.W., moderate in force, and at 

 9 a. m became variable in direction. At noon, latitude 37° 08', longitude 147° 55' E., the 

 barometer was at its lowest point, and the wind had settled to a gale at N.W., which abated in 



