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longitude chronometer 111° 34', shewing a difference of\\\ miles! 

 from the longitude by account. 

 1st October. — No log given. 



Abridged Log of the H. C. S. Neptune, Captain W. Donaldson, 

 reduced to civil time. 



2Jtk September. — Noon latitude 19° 51' ; in company with the fleet, 

 winds variable and calm at midnight. 



28th September— At 4 a. m. lightning to the N. W., at 6 W. N. W., 

 at noon no observation, but latitude and longitude nearly that of the 

 other ships being in company. At noon a fresh breeze with thick rainy 

 weather, increasing at 1 p. m. to a fresh gale N. N. W. At 5, hove to 

 under storm stay-sails, wind North. At 6, the fleet pretty close, dark 

 gloomy weather, gale increasing fast, with a heavy cross sea striking 

 the ship very hard ; at half-past eight, lost the mizen mast, wind about 

 N. E. at midnight. 



29th September — At 4 a. m. wind East with violent gusts; at 6, 

 E. S. E. lost fore topmast, got the main yard on deck ; at noon wind 

 about S. E. by E. Noon no observation, p. m. wind S. E. by E. 

 Hard gales, thick weather and high sea ; all hands at the pumps ; at 

 10 p. m. wind S. E. to midnight.* 



30th September. — a. m. wind S. E. at 10 S. E. by S., ship on her 

 beam ends throughout the storm. Noon no observation, p. m. S. E. 

 hard gales till midnight, when moderating. 



1st October. — 8 a. m. wind S. E. wore and made some sail at 

 daylight ; 12 hours log only given. At noon, latitude by indifferent 

 observation 20° 48' N. 



A letter from J. B. Burnett, Esq. a Midshipman in the Scaleby Cas- 

 tle at the time of this storm, is also added to the documents from the 

 India House, as follows. It is dated Monboddo, 6th November, 1841 : — 



"The account of that remarkable tyfoon, in which the True Briton 

 perished, lies before me. I was then a Midshipman in the Scaleby 

 Castle; the True Briton, Neptune, and Cumberland in company. At 



* The Neptune's Barometer is not marked in the extract sent me, but we learn 

 from Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 207, that it fell in this storm from 29.85 to 28.30. 



