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came from the NW accompanied with heavy rain, thunder, 
and lightning. 
In this example, the wind from SW occasioned the mercury 
to stand lower than that from NW in the same weather; 
which is contrary to what was observed upon the south and 
east coasts ; particularly on the former, where the south-west 
wind elevated the mercury up to, and sometimes above, 30,25. 
5th. On March 6, 1803, we made sail off from the north 
coast, towards Timor, the north-west monsoon having ceased 
to blow at Cape Arnhem, and the eastwardly winds appearing 
to have set in ; but we soon outran them, and had the wind 
so variable and light afterwards, that it took us twenty-three 
days to reach Coepang Bay, a distance of no more than 12 0 
of longitude. The only two remarks I made upon the baro- 
meter during this passage were, that the common height of 
the mercury was 29,95 at those times that the wind remained 
steady for some hours, from whatever quarter it came, and 
about 29,85 when it was most unsettled ; and that it stood 
higher, upon the average, after we had passed Cape Van 
Diemen, when the south-west winds, which blew oftenest, 
came from the sea, than it did before. 
The medium height of the mercury, deducting the time 
between Cape Maria and Groote Eyland in the 2d example, 
I should take at 29,92, which, when the quantity of rainy 
squally weather, with thunder and lightning, is considered, is 
very high : the whole range of the mercury upon the north 
coast was four-tenths of an inch. 
The principal differences in the effect of winds upon this 
coast, from what they produced upon the south and east 
coasts, are, that a north-east wind raised the mercury as 
