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point marked, 20 miles to the SE. of her, for its place at noon. The 

 Tenasserim had probably her part of the storm somewhat deflected by 

 the opening between the Andamans and Cape Negrais? or was not 

 properly within the vortex, but in the northern arm of the parabola 

 of the monsoon. The Freak and Vectis can scarcely be said to have 

 felt the storm at noon on this day ; the Freak at least not till 6 

 P.M., when it was a rapidly increasing gale at NNE., so that its circle 

 may have been about 300 miles in diameter at this time. 



On the 29th April, we find that the Freak — which vessel had 

 had the gale rapidly increasing from NNE. at 6 p.m. on the 28th, — had 

 it veering to NW. at midnight between the 28^^ and 29M, and to 

 SW. by 6 A.M. or daylight ; making on the whole 14 points of veering 

 in 12 hours. At noon she had it also SW. Projecting this, it shows 

 that the centre may have passed some 30 or 40 miles to the North-east- 

 ward of her position at midnight, which is very carefully laid down by 

 Capt. Smoult ; and that it was travelling in a N. Westerly direction. 

 The Flowers of Ugie also, with a very careful log and corrected Ba- 

 rometer, had, we find, the storm increasing, from " squally with rain" at 

 4 A.M. to heaving to under bare poles at 11 ; the wind from East at 

 midnight, to NE. at 10 ; North at 11; NW. at 1 p.m. ; West at 3 ; 

 SW. at 5 ; and South at 8 p.m. With her Barometer at 28*36, and 

 the wind veering 16 points in the seven hours! between 10 a.m., 

 and 5 p.m. or 2^ points per hour; she cannot have been more than 15, 

 or 20 miles at the utmost, from the centre. I should estimate it to 

 have passed also to the NE. of her position. By projection I find 12 

 miles may have been her distance from the centre. 



The log of the Vectis, though the centre cannot have passed far from 

 her, is by no means so carefully kept as those of the Freak and Flow- 

 ers of Ugie ; so that, though I have placed her as I found it written, I am 

 inclined to think that she may have been nearer to the Flowers of 

 Ugie than she is placed on the chart. 



That of the George and Mary presents also some anomalies, and the 

 very remarkable one, that the wind seems to have veered as if the storm 

 had passed close to the Southward of her. This could not have been, 

 at all events, the same vortex. Did any division take place of the main 

 vortex into two ? which might account for this ? and for the anomalies 

 in the log of the Vectis ? I should be unwilling, however, to suppose this, 



