Wore ship, and hove to, under close-reefed topsails on the starboard tack.

Being about a degree to the southward of St.George's Bank, got a cast of the lead at 7 P.M., with no bottom at eighty-five fathoms.Lat.

39.47 N., Long.

68.06 W., a little over two hundred miles from New York.
_Tuesday, October 28th_ .-- Weather cloudy; wind light from the north, hauling to the eastward.

The heavy sea, from the effects of the gale yesterday, continued all day rolling and tumbling us about, and keeping the deck flooded with water.