1839.] 



on the 3d, Ath, and 5th of June, 1839. 



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1st June, 



8 A. M. 



Noon, 

 8 P. M. 



2nd June, 



8 A M. 

 Noon, 



8 P. M. 



3rd June, 



7 A. M. 



Noon, 

 1-30 p. m. 

 2-30 p. m. 



6 P. M. 



4th June, 



4 A. M. 



8 a m. 

 Noon, 



8 P. M. 



Midnight, 



bth June, 8 a , 

 Noon, 



8 P. M. 



Bar. 

 Hot?? East to NEbE. winds and cloudy to the WN. 

 29-535 NE t0 ENE * and cloud y- 



Bar 



29-53 



29 



29-47 



rt)( ENE. cloudy unsettled, midnight heavy squalls from 



ENE. with rain. 



Bar. 



29-43 Strong NE. winds and threatening weather. 

 2941 Strong ESE. winds inclining to a gale. 



29-33 ( Increasing to a gale ; prepared for bad weather. 



29-33 Gale increasing at ENE. 



Bar. 

 29-33 

 29-33 

 29-33 

 29-33 



Gale continuing in hard gusts from East. 



Weather as before. 



Gale blowing in heavy squalls from ESE. 



Gale continuing, veering to SE. 



Gale veering to SSE. 



29-46 Gale still continuing at SSE. veering to S. 

 29-46 Gale decreasing a little, wind at S. 

 29*46 Strong breezes at S. 



From the height of this Barometer on the 1st as compared with 

 that at the Surveyor General's Office in Calcutta, we may assume it to 

 be a nearly correct one ; and if these dates are compared with the as- 

 sumed track of the hurricane — at least at 120 miles distant from Captain 

 Hudson's vessel — it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that this instru- 

 ment was marking the passage of it over his meridian with the regu- 

 larity of a clock! A stronger instance of the vast utility of the 

 Barometer and the use of having them on board all stationary vessels 

 could scarcely be adduced. A good Simpiesometer would have given 

 us still more curious data. It is, I hope, becoming daily more and more 

 evident that the owners of all vessels should be obliged to furnish 

 them with good instruments of all kinds ; and indeed if they knew 

 their own interests they would always do so. The cost of a very 

 small portion of the delay and mischief arising from damage occasi- 

 oned by the want of one, — and these are frequently not losses falling 

 upon underwriters, — would far more than repay the cost.* The 

 seaman who is watching his Barometer is watching his ship; and 

 watching it too in the most intelligent manner. 



. * Col. Reid's observation on this subject deserves to be quoted. " Every policy of 

 insurance should bind the owners or masters of a ship insured to provide a Barometer, 

 and the protest should be required to shew that it was registered at least once in every 

 watch. But it ought to be registered oftener ; and within the tropics, during the hurricane 

 season, every time the log is heaved." I should add that a Simpiesometer ought always 

 to be insisted upon also. 



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