On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms . he afternoon ofthe 7th, appear not to have reached the steamer till late on the9th, in Ion. 32° W. and then with greatly diminished force. Thesteamer kept company, for a long time, with the beam seafrom S. S. E., of the first gale; and, subsequently, with the swell from the active and more advanced portion of the secondstorm :—showing the progression of these great disturbances tohave been in different directions from that of the waves them-selves.
On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms . he afternoon ofthe 7th, appear not to have reached the steamer till late on the9th, in Ion. 32° W. and then with greatly diminished force. Thesteamer kept company, for a long time, with the beam seafrom S. S. E., of the first gale; and, subsequently, with the swell from the active and more advanced portion of the secondstorm :—showing the progression of these great disturbances tohave been in different directions from that of the waves them-selves. It is much to be regretted that no entries of the state of the ba-rometer are found in the Britannias log, although a column hadbeen provided for this purpose in the logbook. The northwesterly wind of the second Cuba gale seems finallyto have left the Britannia on the 10th or 11th of October. Whathad then become of this storm and its predecessor does not clearlyappear; but it is probable that they were continued, in some un-known condition, in the region lying between Iceland and theEuropean continent. - ** f ? ^A 5, A ..*. tj hi I Concomitant Gales of the European Seas. 67 We may notice that the first of these Cuba storms, which fromFlorida to New York could scarcely be traced, except barometri-cally, has appeared the most active of the two after it passed be-yond Newfoundland. These latter observations, however, appearto have been made in positions which were much exterior to themost active portions of the two gales; which could not havecoincided with each other in their axis-routes, through anyknown portion of their progression. On the 11th or 12th of October the steamer took another storm,which we do not recognize as of American origin; which, at1 p. m. on the 12th, changed to N. W. and blew a strong gale, andaccompanied the steamer on the 13th, to the coast of of the European Seas at this period. So far as relates to the more immediate objects of this inq
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