On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield.

  • William C. Redfield
Date:
1846
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Credit: On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    12. New Orleans barracks, La., lat. 30°, Ion. 90° 9', Sept. 2d, wind N. E., r. it. rainy ; 3d, N. W., p. m. rainy ; 4th, N., cloudy ; 5th, N. E., cloudy ; 6th, a. m. N. E., r. M. S. W., cloudy ; 7th, a. m. N. W., p. M. S. W., cloudy. 13. Fort Jessup, La., lat. 31°, Ion. 93°, Sept. 3d, wind S., fair; 4th, S., fair; 5th, S., cloudy ; 6th, S. E., cloudy ; 7ih, S. E.,-cloudy ; 8th, A. M. IV., p. m. S., cloudy. With reference to the foregoing observations it is well to state here that the body of the hurricane passed over the southern part of the peninsula of Florida on the 4th day of September, on its route to Mexico. From the 1st to 4th a rain passed over part of Florida in a nearly opposite direction. Left Border of the Gale. 14. Nassau, N. P., (Bahamas,) Sept. 10th.—The brig Rolla, from Glasgow, arrived this morning, having touched at Antigua. She encountered none of the severe weather which was experienced here and at the adjacent islands on the 2d and 3d instant. On the con- trary it was a perfect calm. [We must suppose that this vessel first made the latitude of Antigua and then ran to the westward in the usual way. Thus the storm might pass down to the westward on a more northern parallel, without being noticed by the Rolla cither before or after her arrival at Antigua. See Chart II.] 15. We come next to the well kept log of II. M. S. Pilot, then on her passage from Ja- maica to Nassau, N. P., ihe full insertion of which our limits preclude. The Pilot was westward of Ilayti on the second and third of September, when tiie gale passed her me- ridian, working up for the passage between Hayti and Cuba, with easterly and variable winds, moderate in force, and just feeling it enough to make her testimony highly inter- esting, as shewn by the following extract: Sept. 2d, a.m., wind N. E.; out first reef of top- sails, set royals and flying-jib : Noon, Cape Maize, [E. end of Cuba,] bore N.22° E., distant 90 miles; at 2 p. m. taken aback, wind N.N. E.; turned round on the starboard tack ; 3 p.m. in royals; 3h 40m. set royals ; 5 p. m., wind southward ; 7 p. m., wind S. W., in royals : ends calm. Sept. 3d, light variable winds, N. W. to E.; 5 a. m., a breeze from E.; 6 a. m., E. b. S.; 10 a. m., E. S. E.: Noon, Cape Maize, N. 2° W. 58 miles ; wind light from E.; 7. p. M., in royals, flying-jib and reef in topsails, wore ship, in top gt. sails ; 9h. 50m. p. m., set fore-topmast staysail, down jib, up foresail, lowered topsails to a squall ; llh. 40m. in two reef fore-topsail. Sept. 4th, 1 a. m. hoisted topsail, set foresail, wind S. E. vary- ing to W. and calm, no stars visible ; a. m., winds S. E., to E. by N. On the 4th and 5th, from E. end of Cuba to Fortune Island, winds light and moderate, from S. to S. E. [I consider the changes of wind on the afternoon and night of the second as due to the influence of the gale in passing ; and the squally or cloudy weather on the night of the 3d as due to the recurrence of the lower trade wind, as disturbed by the passage of the storm on the N. side of Cuba.] 16. From the logbook of H. M. S. Ringdove* sailing from Vera Cruz to Laguna des Terminos on the southern side of the Gulf of Jlexico:—Sept. 5th, calms and variable winds in the forenoon, lat. 19° 15', Ion. 95° 8'; P.M., winds northerly, force 4 and 5; Sept. 6th, latter part of night calm, a. m. winds N. X. E., N. W. and westerly, lat. 19° 9', Ion. 93° 31', p. m. wind W. N. W., 3; Sept. 7th, winds W. S. W. and S. W. by W., 3, lat. 18° 37' Ion. 91° 45'; p. M., light, variable, 1, and calm. On the 8lh the wind freshened from S. E.; with a heavy swell from S. E. on the 9th. [The storm appears to have passed the meridian of the Ringdove on the 7th, but at a considerable distance to the northward. 17. At Vera Cruz, lat. 19° 12', Ion. 96° 04', there was no gale at this period. 18. At Tampico, lat. 22° 15', Ion. 97° 50', the gale was not felt in any force, although this point was near the left centre of the storm. [Had we barometrical observations from ' The logs of the Pilot and Ringdove, with those of other British ships of war, were kindly furnished by Col Reid, of the Royal Engineers, now Governor of Bermuda.