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(9.) Meteorological Observations in Queensland. 
(10.) Log of the schooner “ Pacific,” San Christoval to Sydney, 
in Herald. 
(11.) Log of «You Yangs,” Rockhampton 8th, to Brisbane on 
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(12.) The “Victoria,” Cooktown, J anuary 4th, Brisbane 13th, 
in Herald. 
In order to make the facts of the Wentworth hurricane as 
the prevailing equatorial current would be from west to east 
cut by the weather telegrams. Such a depression in the tropics 
Was quite sufficient to justify the expectation of the strong inru 
of S.E. trades which is shown by the logs of the “ General Pell” and 
K -apeiged and by the weather telegrams, to have taken place on 
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N.W. monsoon, which had arrived at Cooktown on J. anuary 2 
with very heavy rain, and which caught the “John Wesley” when to 
the north of the N ew Hebrides as a strong N.W. to N. _ gale 
on the 5th January, and it was evidently, therefore, exerting a 
Seneral pressure upon the S.E. trade—in fact, forcing it bodily 
of a barometric depression on the coast of Queensland, and the 
Pressure from the N.W. monsoon, the northern parts of the trade 
Wind should rush in with the force of a gale. Here also is the 
€xplanation for its change in direction from S.E. to E. along the 
= er —— monsoon current. ae Fe at 
_ _ +n considering the effect of two great wind currents acti 
S Against the other, it is necessary bear in mind their great. | 
_ *xtent, and the fact that the pressure of the atmosphere above 
