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much greater velocity—her speed not exceeding four knots per hour, it
soon left her far behind. She received, however, so much damage that
after the gale had subsided she was found to be in a sinking state, and
her Commander was obliged to run her ashore near Vingorla, with
only her foremast standing, and nine feet water in her hold. During
the time she was running before the gale, the wind veered in 24
hours from S.E. to S.W. by the East, which is a proof that she was
on the Eastern side of the storm circle, as the following* diagram will
show, the hurricane having moved over her in a N. by W. direction,
from A to B.
sW e Buh f y,. further to the Southward, and closer in
and tb 1 n i ew ^ arther removed from the centre of the storm,
but as e ] 1 ® le ore was no ^ 80 v i°] en t with her as the Mermaid y
furv for 1° a i° re an ^ ^°^ owe( ^ she continued exposed to its
case P mUC j on .§ ,er period than would otherwise have been the
was triflirig^^ 6 W1 ^ °^ er * wo vess els, the damage she received
acrJat p ict0r * a ® team Vessel, after being forced to leave the anchor-
bf wbiM an ° re ’ i k f Ft Cl ° se in Sh0re with her head t0 the Southward,
ManlaTorl 6 ? 5 ’ . she was 60 miles up the coast to
st.nrrf i-1’ S - he continued in a position outside that portion of the
Clrcle 1U whlch tlie greatest violence of the Hurricane, which