330 H. F. Blaiiford — Catalogue of Cyclones in tlie Say of BengaL [No. 4, 



No. 



II 



III 



IV 



VI 

 VII 



VIII 

 IX 



1737 



Oct. 



1747 



Oct. 



1749 Apl 



1752 



Oct. 



1760 Dec. 



1761 Jan. 



1763 Oct. 

 1768 Oct. 



1782 Oct. 



1787 May 



Days. 



7th 



2nd 



13tli 



31st 



31st & 



1st 



21st 

 29th 



20th 



19th & 

 20th. 



Details of Storm. 



A violent earthquake and furious 

 hurricane at the mouth of 

 the Ganges ; reached 60 miles 

 up the river. 20,000 craft 

 of all descriptions destroyed. 

 300,000 people said to have 

 perished in Lower Bengal or 

 in the Gulf. The river rose 

 40 feet ahove its usual level.* 



Six French men of war blown 

 out of Madras roads by a hur- 

 ricane ; one foundered and 4 

 dismasted. Twenty other ves- 

 sels driven ashore or lost at 

 sea. Storm not felt at Pon- 

 dicherry. 



furious hurricane on the Coro- 

 mandel Coast. English camp 

 at Porto Novo blown down. 

 Two Indiamen stranded. The 

 Apollo hospital ship, JPem- 

 hroke 60 guns, and Namur 

 74 lost. 



Violent hurricane on the coast of 

 Madras. Rain that fell conti- 

 nuously for several days laid 

 the whole country under water. 



Cyclone at Pondicherry during 

 the siege. Central calm pass- 

 ed over the town at midnight 

 of New Year's eve. 



Madras. All vessels at anchor 

 in the roads lost. 



Madras. Chatham Indiaman lost 

 in the roads. Storm not felt 

 at Pondicherry. 



Madras. More than one hun- 

 dred country vessels stranded. 



Great storm and storm wave 

 inundation at Coringa ; pene- 

 trated 20 miles inland. Esti- 

 mated that 20,000 souls and 

 500,000 cattle perished. 



Authority. 



PHB. p. 225. 



O. 



C. p. 57. B. I. 



0. 



C. p. 62. 



0. 







c. 



p- 



58. 



0. 







c. 



p 



58. 



c. 



p- 



59. 



c. 



p- 



60. 



HID. 



AAE. ^788. 

 PHB. p. 195. 

 B. I. 



* These estimates are in all probability greatly exaggerated, as will readily be 

 believed by any person acquainted with the character of Indian statistics, even at the 

 present day. The loss of life in the Backergunge cyclone of November 1876, was 

 eventually found to be only about half the original estimate, although this latter was 

 based on an actual enumeration of a certain number of villages, and had been framed 

 with comparative caution. 



