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for the last 20 to 25 hours. Ther. attached 79° 4'. Symp. 28.12. lOh. 40m. 

 a. m. Ther. 79°, Symp. 28.04. Wind and rain increasing latterly, and 

 at present it is a veritable gale ; though not so violent yet as that of 

 May 1833. 5 a. m. Ther. 79° 1', Symp. 27-99, gale and storm unabated. 

 11.40 a. m. Ther. 79° 4', Symp. 27-92. N. N. E. gale continues, rather 

 increasing, with heavy rain. 1 1-50 a. m. Thermometer 79° 5', Symp. 

 27.85, Symp. still falling. 7 p. m. Ther. 79° 4', Symp. 27-83, 

 gale increasing. Mr. Willis's black Schooner on her beam ends, fear 

 she will be swamped. 0.10 p. m. both Mr. Willis's Schooner and his 

 large (20 tons) Saugor boat sunk at their anchors. 0.25 p. m. Ther- 

 mometer 79° 3', Symp. 27*74, or the red fluid sunk into the bend of 

 the tube, its height difficult to read off, but the upper surface of the 

 fluid in the bulb stood at 0.30 to 33 p. m. about Symp. 28.12, read off 

 in a rough guess way by the eye. A very raging and furious storm, 

 and which must, I fear, do dreadful mischief to the shipping, boats, &c. 

 0-37 p. m. rain heavier than it has been, quite obscuring the view, 

 wind seems now N. by W. 0-45 p. m. extremely heavy rain, with 

 continued furious blasts of wind. 0-40 to 45, Thermometer 80°, 

 Symp. 28.13 ; at upper surface of fluid in the bulb. About near 1 p. m. 

 storm still more violent, Ther. 79° 2' and surface of fluid in the bulb 

 about Ther. 78° 3', Symp. 28.135, breathing as it were, or fluctuating 

 with the blasts.* 1-15 to 1-25 gusts of wind still more furious I think, 

 Thermometer 79° 0', Symp. upper surface of fluid in the bulb 28.135, 

 to 138. Rain as heavy as before, wind apparently about N. by W. 2-15 

 p. m., during the last 20 to 25 minutes the storm has abated; the wind 

 just now is only pretty fresh from the N. West, with moderate rain, 

 Symp. as it was. At 4-15 p. m. there has been some rain, wind blowing 

 fresh now from the W. to W. S. W., with some rain. 4-15 Symp. 

 in a fix, unmoveable, or at least unchanged. 4-30 p. m. heavy rain 

 with strong gale from W. S. W. 6-30 to 6-40 p. m. excessively 

 heavy rain with stormy wind from the W. by S. to W. S. W., 



* The italics here are mine. The meteorologist will be struck with the analogy be- 

 tween this remark and that of Professor Barlow upon the water Barometer, as also the 

 remarks of intelligent Captains, which so frequently occur in my Memoirs, and in the 

 works of Mr. Redfield and Col. Reid, on the oscillation of the mercury in the gusts of a 

 storm : see also at p. 978 the log of the Algerine, where this phenomenon is again 

 noticed. — H. P. 



