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passing showers, and dark, cloudy, threatening appearance all round. Sun- 

 set, blowing hard at ENE. with passing showers, and very threatening 

 appearances to the SE., heavy sea. 8 p.m. Blowing hard at ENE. withpass- 

 ing squalls and light showers, with dark cloudy threatening appearances 

 all round. Midnight, moderating, ENE. breezes and cloudy unsettled ap- 

 pearances to the Eastward. 



^Oth April. A.M. Strong breezes at East, with dark, cloudy, unsettled wea- 

 ther. Daylight, blowing hard at ESE. with very threatening appearances 

 all round, and a heavy cross sea. 8 a.m. Strong breezes at ESE. and dark, 

 cloudy, unsettled appearances to the eastward. 8 a.m. to Noon, wind 

 veering from ESE. to East, with continual heavy squalls, and heavy 

 rain, dark dismal clouds, and very threatening appearances all round, 

 with a confused sea. 4 p.m. Strong breezes at East and EbS. with dark 

 cloudy, unsettled weather. Sunset, strong breezes, veering from East to 

 EbS, with dark dismal clouds, and threatening appearance to the SE. with 

 heavy sea. 8 p.m. Strong breezes veering to SE., with dark dismal clouds and 

 unsettled, with threatening appearances all round. Midnight, fresh breezes 

 veering from SE. to SSE. with heavy passing squalls of wind and rain ; 

 unsettled appearances and lightning to the Southward, with distant thunder. 

 \st May, 1840. — a.m. Blowing very hard in squalls at SSE. dismal 

 threatening appearances and passing showers, with very heavy sea. 4 a.m. 

 Wind increasing to a gale at SSE. with a very heavy sea. Daylight, blow- 

 ing a gale at SSE. with dismal threatening appearances. 8 a.m. Gale 

 increasing at SSE. with very threatening appearance, and very heavy sea. 

 Noon, blowing a heavy gale at SSE. very threatening appearance, sea 

 still continuing. 4 p.m. Gale still continuing very heavy, weather clearing 

 up a little ; sea still continuing heavy. 8 p.m. Moderate breezes veering to 

 SbW. and SSW. with passing squalls of wind and rain, and unsettled 

 weather, with lightning to the SW. Sunset, moderating a little, and 

 wind veering to Southward and SbW. with passing squalls of wind and 

 rain, sea continuing. Midnight, blowing hard at SSW. and SW. with 

 heavy passing squalls of wind and rain, with dark cloudy w^eather all 

 round, and lightning to the SW. 



Mr. Hudson adds the following remarks. " As the variation of the wind 

 and the appearances of the weather, were correctly stated during the gale, 

 the only remarks I have to make thereon, are, that in every gale I have 

 experienced here, it has invariably began at the Northward, veering to the 

 Eastward, sometimes as far as North-east and back again,* generally break- 

 ing up at SW. ; the heaviest part of the gale generally being between SE. 

 and South, except the last, the heaviest of which was at WSW., the point at 



which it broke up." 



* So in the MSS. 



