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at North, with three at N. by E. and with one at N.N.E., but as they 

 were dispersed over perhaps eight miles of distance this might occur. 

 We shall not be far wrong if we take the wind to have been N. b E. 

 for this time for the whole fleet, which it will be observed also, was 

 upon the larboard tack standing or rather drifting to the Eastward 

 and Southward- The centre of the storm at this time would then bear 

 about E. b S. of them. 



By 12 on the following day the wind which had veered rapidly to 

 the N. W., West, and S. W., shewing that the centre had passed close 

 to the Northward of them, was 



With the Cuffnells, S. S. W. 



„ Woodford, .. .. . . South, 



„ Elphinstone, (about) . . South, 



„ Winchelsea, . . . . . . South, 



Alfred, S. S. E. 



„ Wexford, .. .. .. South, 



„ Arniston, . . . . . . South, 



but as they were now much dispersed, we may take South to have 

 been the limit of the change within the 24 hours, or 17 points, i. e. 

 from N. b E. to S. 



The projection of this, with due allowance for the drift, which 

 was round the S. Western and S. Eastern quadrants of the storm 

 circle, and without forgetting that with the ships which were farthest 

 to the Northward the wind was at 8 p. m. S. S. E., will give about a 

 track from the E. b N. to W. b S. for the storm, and I have so 

 marked it. 



The distressed state of the Elphinstone, which was at one time as 

 near foundering as possible, and the extreme violence of the wind 

 recorded in her log, was evidently owing to her having, by bearing up, 

 ran and drifted more to the North-west than she appears to have 

 done by the mere log. The Winchelsea also bore up, as did the 

 Woodford, but neither of them had the wind so violent as the 

 Elphinstone, This is accounted for by working back their logs, which 

 though always, (and particularly with the Elphinstone in this case), 

 an imperfect record, is still the only authentic one. From this it ap- 

 pears that both the Winchelsea and Elphinstone had an observation, 

 and sights for chronometer on the 30th, and the logs worked back to 



