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afterwards bearing to S. S. W., which gale continued more or less 

 all night, although perhaps raging not so fiercely as it did between 

 0.30 and 2-0 p. m. Sympiesometer so far as observed up to 10 p. m. 

 and later, seemed still in its fixed low state. 



4th June. — Saturday, 6-0 a. m. a stiff gale with little rain, still 

 blowing from the S. S. W. ; and the same, but in greater degree 

 prevailed during the (past) night, and without very heavy rain. 

 6-30 a. m. Thermometer 78° 6', Symp. 28.64 alive again! 7-5 a. m. 

 Thermometer 78° 7, Symp. 28.66, height of upper surface of fluid in 

 the bulb 28.07, and was during the height of the gale 28.13 to 28.14, 

 as well as I could estimate it by the eye, without applying a rule or 

 scale. 8-15 a. m. Thermometer 80°, Symp. 28.67- 8-15 a. m. strong 

 S. S. W. breeze, little or no rain. Squally and rainy at intervals 

 during the day, with very strong wind from the S. S. W. J-\5 

 p. m. Thermometer 80° 2', Symp. 28.685, a strong S. W. or S. S. W. 

 wind, with occasional hard squalls or bursts continued throughout the 

 night. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE NEWSPAPERS. 



The following are the heights of the Glasses during the Gale of the 

 SQth instant, on board the Barque Margaret Thompson, Capt. 

 Thurtell, lying at Calcutta. 



Sympiesometer. 



Barometer. 



June 2nd, 



10 P. M. 



28.70 



June 



3rd, 



7 a. m. 28.95 



3rd, 



7 A. M. 



28.35 







10 28.70 





8 



28.25 







12 28.50 



: 



10 



28.05 







1 p. m. 28.30 





U 



27.80 







1 30 28.22 





12 



27.50 







3 *28.32 



»> 



30 p. m. 



27.30 







5 28.25 



j> 



1 



27.30 







7 28.60 





130 „ 



27.35 



f) 





9 28.80 



>> 



2 30 „ 



27.40 







10 28.85 



it 



5 



27.60 







12 28.95 



ii 



6 



28.00 



June 



4th, 



7 a. .m. 29.20 



ii 



•i 



7 15 „ 

 9 „ 



28.20 

 28.50 









>> 



10. „ 



28-60 









)> 



12 



28.80 









June 4th, 



7 A. M. 



29.30 









* 28.22 is probably meant, here.— H. P. 



