1036 Third Memoir ivith reference to [No. 106. 



H. C. S. Amherst. Gale of 21th April to Ut May, 1840. 

 The H. C. S. " Amherst" was lying at Kyook Phoo, and experienced, as 

 by her log, nothing but squally and rainy weather at times from the 2^th 

 April to \st May. The winds were moderate, and variable from ESE. to 

 SE. South and SSW. 



From the " Colombo Observer." 

 On Saturday night, 25th April 1840, a strong breeze of wind com- 

 menced, amounting almost to a gale — apparently the beginning of the 

 Monsoon — accompanied, as usual, with a heavy sea and a high surf over 

 the Bar, which has since continued. In this state of the weather a wharf 

 joUy-boat, returning from the Persia, when crossing the Bar, was swamp- 

 ed, and, melancholy to relate, three persons were drowned. 



The ship Recovery, Captain Johnstone, was at noon of the 28th April in 

 Lat. 5° 43' N., steering to the NNE. to round Ceylon. At noon of the 29th, she 

 was in 7° 20' N. with Westminster Abbey bearing SWbW. At noon on the 

 SOth having stood north 126, miles she was in Lat. 9° 40' N. and at noon 

 on the 1st May in 11° 57' N. having stood north 149 miles, and had fine 

 weather throughout these days. 



Barque " Cornwallis," from Bombay towards Calcutta. Civil time. 



At noon on 28^^ April in Lat. 11° 50' N., Long. Chron. 74© 48' E. Fine 

 weather till midnight. 



29th April. — Midnight, strong 6 knot breeze NW. Hazy strong SSE. 

 Daylight and to Noon heavy westerly swell. Noon Lat. 9° 14' N. Long 75° 50' 

 E. increasing to sunset and midnight. Wind NW. throughout, a.m. SOth 

 April, strong breezes SW. to Noon, heavy westerly swell. Noon Lat. 7° 3' N. 

 78° 15' E. ; P.M. and to midnight, very heavy swell from West; wind 

 westerly ; thick hazy weather. 



1st May, — Light 5 knot breezes at daylight, and fine weather ; vessel 

 labouring so much with the heavy westerly swell, that it is feared she may 

 roll away her masts. Hove to to set up the rigging at Noon. Wind 

 westerly throughout Lat. 5° 47' N. Long. 80° 20' E. High swell continuing 

 till midnight, when it abated and is not mentioned on the 2nd, 



I have next, as in the former Memoir, arranged the winds and weather 

 experienced at Noon, Civil time, by each of the different vessels, and at the 

 stations within the Bay of Bengal, in a tabular form ; so as to afford a ready 

 reference from the chart and diagrams, and to shew more strikingly than 

 by detailed accounts, the remarkable contrasts which different points of 

 the space comprised in the charts, exhibit. 



