[Hall, Captain, "his account of a 'tyfoon-Cyclone' in the China Sea", Nautical Magazine, January 1847]
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Henry Piddington, in "The Sailor's Horn-Book for the Law of Storms," cites Nautical Magazine which in turn quotes Captain Hall...
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In the Nautical Magazine for January, 1847, is an excellent account of a tyfoon-Cyclone in the China sea in September, 1842, by Captain Hall of the Black Nymph, who also saw distinctly the body of the storm approaching. He says--
"Toward evening I observed a bank in the S. E. Night closed in and water continuing smooth, but the sky looked wildish, the scud coming from N. E., the wind about North. I was much interested in watching for the commencement of the gale which I now felt sure was coming, considering that Colonel Reid's theory being correct, it would point out my position with respect to its centre. That bank in the S. E. must have been the meteor approaching, and the N. E. scud the outer N. W. portion of it, and when at midnight a strong gale came on about North to N.N.W., I felt certain we were then on its Western and Southerly verge."
In the letter of the Commander of the Judith and 'Esther to Colonel Reid, p.75 of his work, it is stated at the conclusion of the hurricane (Cyclone),
"At 6 P.M. the gale abated and the sea fell fast, the appearance of the sky at this time was very remarkable, being of a deep red colour to the North, and looking very dark to the West, as if the gale was moving in that direction."
