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First, we will take the Lintin records. From these it is clear, 

 that the storm there may be called one lasting about 6 hours only, 

 i e. from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon of the 9th, and 

 during this time, as remarked by Col. Reid, being from N. E. 

 to East, E. S. E., and S. E. We may thus take it to be at 

 noon on the 9th at its full fury at E. S. E. when the centre must 

 have borne about S. S. W. from the Bridgewater and Hereford- 

 shire, and by 3 p. m. it was at S. E., when the centre was of 

 course bearing S. W. from them, and they were then nearly out of its 

 influence ; for it is stated, that the boat of the Herefordshire was sent 

 on board of the Bridgewater at J past 2 p. m. Now the bad weather 

 from the N. W., West, and S. W., which was experienced by the other 

 three ships, i. e. Charles Grant, Lady Melville, and Buckingham- 

 shire, began with those ships before midnight, between the 8th and 

 9th ; and at 1 a. m. on the 9th, when it should be noted that the 

 wind was at least West, and to the Southward of West with some of 

 them. The centre then at midnight, between 8th and 9th, should have 

 borne North from them, and as the wind was about S. S. W. by 10 a. m., 

 the centre bore W. N. W. from them at that time, and they were all 

 not far from the meridian of Lintin. The Lady Melville indeed was 

 making sail again at this time. Yet it was at 9 a. m. that the storm 

 was commencing with the Bridgewater, say from the E. by S., which 

 would give the centre bearing S. by W. from her, and from its violence 

 and fall of the Barometer, much nearer to her than to the ships at 

 sea; and at 10, when, as we have noted, they were making sail with a 

 S. S. W. wind, it was blowing a tyfoon at E. S. E. at Lintin. No 

 projection will reconcile this, and no allowances from the anomalies 

 produced by the land, will account for the discrepancies in time, I 

 think. We know that the ships at sea had nothing to alter the fair 

 course of the storm, but as will be seen by the chart, the high land on 

 the Eastern shore of the river, and that of the large island of Lantao, 

 may have greatly influenced the direction of the wind. 



Again, if the storm experienced by the ships at sea had occurred 

 later than that at the anchorage, we might suppose it to have been, as 

 in the instances of the Ariel and Marquis Camden, a disturbance or 

 vibration of the usual monsoon, (this being the height of it,) occasioned 

 by the storm to the Northward ; but it does not seem so probable that 



