Dense masses of clouds covered the sky, enveloping everything in gloom; which, though so far agreeable as to reduce the temperature to 75 degrees, had a most singular effect after the constant bright sunny days we had experienced.

There was still no unusual change in the barometer, the maximum being 30.06, and the minimum 29.98 at two P.M.The night was squally without rain.
HURRICANE AT PORT ESSINGTON.
November 27.
The day broke with an appearance of fine weather; patches of blue sky peeped between the heavy masses of clouds, and expanding as the day advanced, left us at sunset with a cloudless vault of blue overhead.

The barometer was lower throughout the whole of this day than it had been at all, being at two P.M.

29.91.When this strange weather first began I was disposed to consider it to be of the same character as that which I had before observed to occur within a few days of the change of the moon.

But its duration and occasional violence led me to think otherwise, and I afterwards found my conclusions to be correct; as at this very time a hurricane visited Port Essington, distant 270 miles, in a North 30 degrees East direction.* (*Footnote.