ABOUT THE 20tH OF DECEMBER, 1836. 



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Atlantic, but with indifferent success. I have found no barometric observa- 

 tions, and few log-books of the common kind. The New York packet ship 

 Hibernia left Liverpool December 20th. The following extract from her log- 

 book gives some information of the weather which prevailed at that time on the 

 Atlantic. For the sake of comparison I have placed by the side the winds as 

 observed at Brussels. 



Ship Hibernia. 



Dec. 23, 

 24, 



25, 

 26, 

 27, 

 28, 

 29, 

 30, 



Latitude. 



50° 28' 



48 36 



47 58 



47 23 



46 56 



46 38 



46 20 



45 55 



Longitude. 



9° 9' 

 14 36 

 19 58 

 23 40 

 27 30 



32 6 



33 27 



34 3 



W.N 



N.E.; 

 N.E.; 



N.E ; 

 N.E.; 

 N.E.; 

 N.E.; 

 Calm. 



Wind. 



W.; N.W.; N.; showers. 

 N.E.; showers of hail. 

 E.N.E 

 N.N.E.; showers. 



E.N.E.; E. 

 E.N.E.; showers. 

 E . S. E . ; S . E . 



Brussels. 



N.; N,; N.; snow. 

 N.E.; N.E.; snow. 

 N.E.; N.E.; snow. 

 N.E.; N.E. 

 N.E.; N.E.; snow. 

 N.E.; E.N.E.; snow. 

 N.E.; N.E.; snow. 

 N.E.; N.E. 



The uniformity in the direction of the winds shows that the Hibernia expe- 

 rienced the same kind of weather which prevailed in Europe up to the 29th of 

 December, when she was in the middle of the Atlantic, and the American 

 storm, if felt at all, ought already to have passed her. I have sought to pro- 

 cure some meteorological register from the Azores. The following extract, fur- 

 nished by our consul, Mr. Dabney, is all I have been able to obtain. It exhi- 

 bits the mean temperature of the respective days at Fayal. 



Dec. 23 



24 



25 



26 



27 



28 



29 



30 



31 



63° 



64° 



61° 



63° 



62° 



67° 



57° 



57° 



57° 



Here is exhibited a striking depression of the thermometer on the 29th. 

 This may, perhaps, be ascribed to the influence of the American storm, which 

 had just reached the Azores. A like depression of the thermometer, however, 

 accompanied the European storm; and from the above observations of the Hi- 

 bernia, the latter influence would seem to have been the one chiefly, if not ex- 

 clusively, felt. My conclusion, then, from this investigation is, that the eastern 

 limit of the storm of December 20th cannot be placed beyond the middle of the 

 Atlantic. The storm was probably sensible over seventy degrees of lono-itude 

 and forty of latitude. 



