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statements should here be presented. The following notices of other cyclones in the eastern 

 Pacific have since been obtained : 



Track 9. The Belle's Cyclone. — The barque Belle was dismasted in a severe gale on the 3d of 

 August, 1855, in latitude 18° N., longitude 109° W., while making her passage from Cape San 

 Lucas to Honolulu. Her main and mizen masts being cut away, she righted, with five feet of 

 water in the hold. At 11 o'clock the wind shifted suddenly to southwest, and she was again 

 thrown on her beam ends. The foremast was cut away, and she again righted, sweeping the 

 decks of everything. 



It is clear that the Belle was on the center path of the cyclone. 



The Dutch ship Gertrude Maria, sailed from San Francisco for Callao, July 26, and proceeded 

 on her voyage very well until August 5, in latitude 23° 53' N., longitude 118° 47' W., when 

 she experienced a severe hurricane from N.E. to N.N.W., W.N.W. and west to S.W. and 

 south, which lasted to the 6th. During its continuance, lost main topmast, with everything 

 attached. 



If we compute the advance of the cyclone in two days, from the position of the Belle on the 

 3d to that here given on the 5th, as equal to six hundred and sixty nautical miles, it will show 

 a rate of about thirteen and a half miles per hour, on a course which is north 58° west, or 

 N.W. by W., nearly. 



Track 10. Second Cyclone of the Gertrude Maria. — From the 8th to 9th of August, 1855, in 

 latitude 15° N., longitude 116° 31' W., the Gertrude Maria experienced another severe hurri- 

 cane from N.E. to N.N.W., W.N.W. and west, to S.W. south and S.W., during which she 

 lost fore-topmast, &c, and was compelled to put back to San Francisco to repair. 



Track 11. Cyclone of the Edward Stanly. — The ship Edward Stanly, from Cardiff to San 

 Francisco, September 4, 1855, in latitude 20° N., longitude 121° 50' W., experienced a violent 

 hurricane from S.E., which lasted eighteen hours; during which, shipped a heavy sea, and 

 sustained much damage. 



CYCLONE OF THE UNITED STATES SHIP PREBLE. 



Track 12. — The United States ship-of-war Preble, from Monterey towards Callao, at noon of 

 October 24, 1847, was in latitude 17° 19' N., longitude 106° 46' W. ; wind N.N.E., and squally 

 appearances ; took in light sails ; at 2.10 p. M., made sail again to topgallant-sails and mainsail ; 

 barometer 29.78 ; at midnight, wind N.E. by N., and squally appearances ; barometer 29.78 ; 

 to 4 a. m.j squally ; barometer 29.75 ; from 4 to 8 A. M., strong gale from N.E. by E. ; three 

 reefed topsails, &c. ; barometer 29.73 ; from 8 to noon, strong gale ; under storm-sails ; gale at 

 10 a. m., E.N.E. ; at 11, E. by N. ; at noon, east ; barometer 29.74 ; in latitude 15° 20' N., 

 longitude 106° 15' W. From noon of 25th to 4 p. m., gale E.N.E. ; weather unchanged ; ba- 

 rometer 29.63; from 4 to 8 p. M., gale the same ; barometer 29.67 ; 8 p. M., gale strong from 

 E.N.E., with rain ; at 9 p. M., gale N.E. by E. ; weather unchanged ; at 10 p. m., bore up, and 

 ran S.W. by W. to clear the cyclone ; at 11 p. M., gale N.E. ; barometer 29.62 ; [probably 

 then nearest to the storm's centre ;] from midnight to 4 A. M. continued to run off the course- 

 gale abating ; at 1 a. m. the wind was N.N.E. ; at half past 1, N. \ W. ; at 2, N.N.W. ; 

 barometer 29.64 ; at 5 A. m., wind S.W. , and fresh; at 8 A. M., barometer 29.75; at noon, 

 (October 26,) observed in latitude 14° 32' N., longitude 106° 43' W. 



This was a severe cyclone, as I am informed by Lieutenant Bent, although it appears to have 

 been of limited extent, and of slow progress. Had the ship bore up at an earlier period, it is 

 likely that much of its force would have been avoided. 



