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24th October. — a. m. wind marked N. by W. } tyfoon very heavy, 

 with incessant rain and high sea. At lh. 40m. its extreme rage abated, 

 and shifted to the N. E., the sea became less violent, and the ship rode 

 more easily, but very heavy squalls. No Barometrical observations 

 are given. 



Tyfoon of 27th October, 1831,* at Manilla. 



Abridged from the Notes to the Voyage of La Favorite, Capt. 

 La Place, Vol. I. p. 552. 



2*Jth October, 1831 One of these hurricanes ravaged the Colony in 



a frightful manner. It began at midnight, and lasted four hours. 

 The wind began at N. N. W., and ended at E. N. E. When at North 

 the tyfoon blew with a fury, which no inhabitant had ever seen 

 equalled. The air " seemed on fire." All the vessels at anchor before 

 Manilla and at Cavite went on shore, and were mostly lost. The 

 English Frigate Crocodile only, with excellent chain cables, and in 

 about the same anchorage as the Favorite, held on, and sustained but 

 trifling damages. The destruction on shore was frightful. 



At the Laguna, (thirty miles East of Manilla,) the hurricane was 

 still more severe, though sheltered by high mountains to the North. 



M. La Place remarks also, and this is a fact well known at Manilla, 

 the evident relation which the volcanoes have with the hurricanes. 

 Scarcely one occurs in which some volcanic phenomena are not ob- 

 served, and these are sometimes very violent. 



Log of the Ship Fort William, reduced to Civil time. 



From Captain Biden. 



The ship Fort William) Captain Neish, bound from China to Manilla, 

 arrived at Singapore on the 12th instant, under jury masts, having 

 been totally dismasted in the passage, probably by the Manilla tyfoon. 

 We have been favoured with the following abstract of the log of that 

 ship, which details the particulars : — 



* There is a difference of dates here, but there is no doubt the storms are the 

 same. 



