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May,* which spot is in Lat. 22° N., 85° 25' E. I have printed it, but 

 am doubtful if it has any relation to our storm. From Mr. Raven- 

 shaw's table, it appears, that he had a storm on the 26th April, another 

 on \st May, and a third on the 6th May, but as our centre for the Ist 

 May at noon cannot be very far wrong, we can scarcely suppose that 

 the impediments the hurricane met with can have reduced its rate of 

 travelling so as to allow it only a motion of less than 228 miles in 

 four days and ten hours, which is the diiference between noon on the 

 1st, and 10 P.M. on the Sth ; when, from the gale being at East, the centre 

 must still have borne South from that station, reducing the rate of its 

 progressive motion to perhaps 40 miles a day ! 



The reports from Delhi and Kurnaul, however, seem to show that 

 the storm experienced there on the ^th, may have been owing to 

 the last eiforts of this one which we have been tracing. Kurnaul is in 

 Lat. 29* 40' N., and Long. 77° 57' E. bearing, therefore, N. 41° 

 W. 624 miles from our centre on the 1*^ May. From noon on 

 the \st to, say midnight, on the Ath are Z\ days, and this would give 

 the distance travelled to be 178 miles per day. In the fluctuating nature 

 of the storm, there is much of what we might, I think, expect from 

 impulses of the icind in the neighbourhood of high mountains, and 

 when their forces were nearly expended. If we admit these squalls in the 

 neighbourhood of Delhi to have been part of the Cuttack storm, we 

 shall then have traced it from the Andaman Islands to that place ! 



There is one more circumstance to advert to, before closing this 

 Memoir, which I should not omit ; and this is the great amount of pro- 

 perty which, even with what we now know, has been clearly lost by ships 

 running headlong into the storm ; and this might, in all human 

 probability, have been saved, by heaving to for twelve hours. If the 

 tracks of the Nusserath Shaw from the 27^/i to the 28^A April, of 

 the Freak from the 28^y^ to the 29th, of the Vectis from the 

 28^^ to the 29th ; and of the Flowers of Ugie from the 2Sth to the 

 29th, be examined on the chart, it will be distinctly seen, that each of 

 these vessels ran down from 100 to 150 miles to meet, or cross, the track 

 of the hurricane ! while, at the rate it was travelling, and with the in- 

 fallible warning which their Barometers and the direction of the 

 wind might have afforded them of its approach and direction, heav- 



* I have learnt that about this date a very severe storm was experienced in the south- 

 ern and eastern parts of the Midnapore district, but no reports have reached mo. 



