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nothing of its being perfectly useless to do so, since she would be 

 ordered to sea again. 



9. Neerlandsch Indie. This ship unfortunately hove to exactly in 

 the track of the Cyclone. She should have run off S. W. or S. W. b. W. 

 at 10 p. m. on the 25th ; or at midnight at latest, and have gradually 

 hauled to the Southward on her due course, as the wind and her Baro- 

 meter would have shewn her that she was rounding and passing the 

 Cyclone. 



10. La Meuse. Hove to at the proper time, but might have run 

 off a little to the Westward to allow the centre to pass her, hauling 

 round it as the wind came to the Westward of North, so as to make a 

 fair wind of it throughout. 



11. Rob Roy. Had been standing off from the land but might also 

 have run to the South and round the heel of the Cyclone, by which 

 she would have avoided all the risks she ran with a shifted cargo. 



12. Iskunder Shah. Deceived by her Barometer (a good Simpieso- 

 meter would probably have shewn the danger) and hampered with the 

 land could do no better. 



13. Atalanta. We have no account of this ship's Barometer till the 

 26th, when she appears to have run into the parallel Cyclone ; theoreti- 

 cally, she was running very fairly to the S. S. W. to avoid the first. 

 This can only be explained by supposing she was close to the spot where 

 the second Cyclone descended, or was developed from the main one. 



We have thus — 



Ships well, and perfectly well managed, 5 



Crossing too close in front of the Cyclone, 2 



Embarrassed by the land or deceived by their Barometers, . . 3 



Hove to in the track of the Cyclone, 1 



— Ran dangerously too close in, I 



Total, 12 



The most remarkable and important phenomenon of this Cyclone, 

 however, is the undoubted fact of the very limited fall of the Barome- 

 ter, as compared with the intensity of the storm, which we see succes- 

 sively dismasted, or disabled, or damaged, in its progress of five days, — 

 the Iron Gem, Eneas, John Mc Vicar , Atalanta, La Meuse, Iskunder 

 Shah, and Neerlandsch Indie, and has no doubt done other mischief 

 of which we have no account. 



