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SOth November. — At 3 a. m. wind East ; at 5, wind E. N. E. squally ; 

 at 7 Bar. 29.34; noon, fresh gale and cloudy, Lat. Obs. 8° 23' N. 



1pm. wind E. N. E. fresh gale and cloudy, at 3 wind N. E .by E. 

 at 5 Bar. 29.30, 8 Bar. 29.40. Hard squalls with small rain; 11 

 wind E. N. E. fresh gale throughout with frequent hard squalls and 

 small rain ; under storm trysails. 



1st December. — 3 a.m. furled the fore topsail, 5 Bar. 29.30, 7 more 

 moderate, 10 wind East, Bar. 29.24. Noon, fresh gale and cloudy, 

 Lat. Obs. 9° 49' N. 



1 p.m. wind S. E. fresh gale with hard squalls, 5 wind South, 8 hard 

 squalls with small rain, 6 Bar. 29.35, fresh gale throughout with fre- 

 quent hard squalls and small rain. Midnight Bar. 29.49. 



2d December. — 2 a. m., wind S. S. E. very hard squalls with small 

 rain, 4 Bar. 29.60, 5 more moderate, 11 wind S. E., noon more mo- 

 derate, Bar. 2960. Lat. Obs. 11° 21' N. after which fine weather. 



Report from the Barque Mary Imric, Captain Boyd, forwarded by 



Captain Bid en. 

 SOth November, 1843. — Blowing a strong breeze from N. N. E. 

 all possible sail set, daylight the weather became very cloudy, heavy 

 dark masses rising in the North and passing over with increasing 

 velocity to the Southward. Noon, weather dismally dark, with a very 

 suspicious appearance, sun obscured, Lat. by account 12° 20' North, 

 p. m., the sea rising and the breeze increasing fast, took in all small 

 sails and sent down royal and top-gallant yards, and close reefed the top- 

 sails, indeed at this time I would have been induced to lay the 

 vessel to, the appearance of the weather was so bad ; as well as being 

 under the impression, that the farther you run into a storm the more 

 likely you are to suffer from its effects* had the Barometer not kept 

 well up; at daylight it stood at, .. 30 03 



At noon it rose to, . . . . 30 1 1 



2 p. m. down to, . . . . 29 83 

 where it continued till midnight, at which time it blew a terrific gale 

 with a heavy cross sea, wind steady at N. N. E. and scudding under 



* This is the old axiom. It depends of course on which side of a storm circle the 

 ship is, to be correct. A ship should certainly never run into a storm, but she may 

 as certainly often run out of it.— H. P. 



