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October. The following is from the Chinese Repository of August, 

 1832:— 



Tyfoon, 3d August, 1832. 



2d. — Evening, wind from Northward. Thermometer 92° and Baro- 

 meter beginning to fall from 29.60 or JO, but not much wind during 

 the night. 



At daylight of the 3d, wind fresh. Barometer fell till it reached 28. 1 0, 

 (with some 27-90). In 1809, (True Briton's storm,) it fell to 28.30 

 only. This storm was far more severe, and was much longer from 

 the North. A Dutch vessel sunk between Lintin and Macao. The 

 Spartan driven to sea, saved about 40 of her crew. The tyfoon ap- 

 pears to have extended fully 200 miles from N. to S. 



Mr. Redfield has collected the following notices of this storm : — 

 Canton Tyfoon of August 3d, 1 832. 



At Macao the wind set in from the north, and reached its greatest 

 height about 1 p. m. ; continuing with the same violence till 5 p. m., 

 when it veered suddenly to the southward, but with diminished 

 strength. When the fury of the gale was exhausted, the quicksilver 

 rose at the rate of three-tenths per half hour. Barometer, August 2d, 

 8 a.m. 2968;— 8 p. m. 29.34;— Aug. 3d, 8 a. m. 29.34 ;—5 p. m. 

 27-88. Other land barometers differently adjusted, fell to 27.96 

 and 28.05. 



At Cap-shuy-moon the gale began at N. and N. W., between 

 which points it blew with tremendous violence; shifting, towards the 

 conclusion to S. E., whence it blew more moderately. The Barometer, 

 in the early ^rt, fell to 28.20. 



The American ship Don Quixote left on the day before the tyfoon; 

 and returned on the 5th with loss of mainmast. 



Since the tyfoon, the British brig John Biggar, from Manilla, has 

 come in dismasted. The Spanish brig Veloz, also from Manilla, has 

 arrived with loss of mainmast. 



A letter from the commander of the Dutch ship Fair Armenian, 

 which foundered about thirty miles westward of the Grand Ladrone, 

 says: — " On the evening of the 2d instant, we made the Grand 

 Ladrone, and on the morning of the 3d, it came on a tyfoon blowing 

 off the land; this about noon increased to a tremendous height and 

 dismasted us; unshipped and broke our rudder, and carried away a 

 great part of the bulwarks. The gale was at its height about 4 or 5 

 p. m., and after dark gradually moderated." 



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