N. 



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of the Elizabeth Ainslie which ship must have been close to the centre 

 at noon, for she was in it at 5 p. m. on this day, we shall find, that it 

 agrees so far as to make the following ships have the winds by the 

 chart and by their logs as follows : — 



Wind by Log. Wind by the projection. 



Elizabeth Ainslie, . . about North. . . Assumed correct. 



John Fleming, . . between N. and E. 



Flowers of Ugie, . . about N. b E. 



Futtle Rozack, . . N. East. 



Baboo, Westerly. 



Edmonstone, . . West 



Sophia, . . . . about W. S. W. 



which is near enough for these seven ship3 to allow us to assume it. 

 It will then be for this day in Lat. 8° 38' S. Long. 85° 00 E. 



On the 30M November. — We find that a number of the ships 

 which had drifted or run to the South and South Westward, were evi- 

 dently on the Eastern and South Eastern and Southern quadrants 

 of the storm, having the winds from N. by E. to N. E. and East, 

 while others were on the Northern, and the Sophia on the extreme 

 North Western verge. The Edmonstone which ship had run down 

 about a degree and a half to the Southward, (S. S. E. South and S. S. 

 W.) had the wind also veering as it should veer with a Hurricane 

 slowly progressing to the Westward, while she was running partly 

 round the N. Eastern, and towards the Eastern quadrants of it ; and 

 her Bar. also was falling from midnight of the 29th to 30th, as by bearing 

 up, she run down again towards, and neared the centre. We find it again 

 rising also when, having brought the centre of the Hurricane to bear 

 W. b N. of her (wind N. b E.) towards midnight of the 1st Decem- 

 ber, she again heaves to and allowed the storm to pass slowly away 

 from her, while she drifted away from it. The following will be 

 found the directions of the wind as given in the ship's logs and those 

 which the centre of the Hurricane, as assumed* for this day, and the 

 positions of the ships give at Noon. 



* I use this word " assumed" rather in contradistinction to "shown" or "de- 

 monstrated" because of the great uncertainty of many of the ships' positions, of 

 which some have now been three or four days without observations and keeping a 

 very indifferent note of the drift, sea, and even of courses, and winds. 



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