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A Third Memoir with reference to the Theory of the Law of Storms in India ; 

 being, Researches relating to the Hurricane in the Bay of Bengal, and at 

 Cuttacle, from 27th April to 1st May 1840. — By Henry Piddington, Esq. 



On the 80th April the station of Pooree (or Juggernauth) in Cuttack, 

 was visited by an awful Hurricane, which destroyed almost every house, 

 Native and European. It was subsequently learnt by the arrival of the 

 ship Nusserath Shaw, with troops on board, dismasted, that several of the 

 ships of the China expedition, which had sailed a short time previous, had 

 suffered, and that the storm had extended across the Bay from near the 

 Andaman Islands, if not to the eastward of them, in about a NW. direction 

 to Pooree. It seems also to have travelled as far as Kurnaul, inland. 



Our documents for the investigation of the track of this storm, amount 

 to about thirty logs and reports of different kinds, the which, preserving al- 

 ways the expressions of the writers in all that is essential, I have abridged 

 into as small a compass as possible ; and I have, as before, condensed the 

 whole into a table at noon ; giving thus a view of the contrasts which the 

 weather presents in different parts of the Bay, at nearly the same moment 

 of time, the difference of Longitude being too small to require any correc- 

 tion of moment. I regret not having been able to add to this Memoir the 

 logs of several of the ships of the expedition, such as the Marion, Isabella 

 Robertson, and others ; but as they have not been forwarded to me, I have 

 thought the delay not worth incurring, as it is not possible to say when 

 they may return to this port. Our evidence for the track of the storm will, 

 I hope, be found tolerably complete, from its centre having on different days 

 passed over, or close to, five ships, and to one station on shore. We are thus 

 enabled to mark its route with greater exactness, for a longer time, and 

 to a greater distance, than any of the preceding ones hitherto investi- 

 gated. As in the foregoing Memoirs the logs and tables are followed 

 by a summary view, stating the grounds upon which the track of the 

 storm, the size of the vortex, and its rate of motion are laid down. The 

 general reader, to whom the professional details are tedious, will find 

 her I trust that nothing has been assumed without due amount of proof. 

 The seaman can judge for himself. 



Extract from the Log of the Ship " Nusserath Shaw," Capt. Edwards, bound from 

 Calcutta to Singapore and China, with troops on board. Reduced to Civil time. 

 27th April, 1 840. At midnight, light airs and fine, hot, sultry weather ; 

 wind SEbS. ; at 4 a.m. EbN. ; at 8, increasing ; and at noon frequent hard 

 squalls. Lat. Obs. 16° 2' N. Long. Chron. 91° 21' E. p.m. strong breezes 

 ENE. to midnight, with dark cloudy weather and increasing sea. 



