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ever, had still very heavy weather, but this was in the vicinity of the 

 coast, and not against the usual direction of the monsoon at this period 

 of the year; another instance in which, while a hurricane was fairly 

 formed, and travelling across the Bay, the monsoon also rises to the 

 strength of a heavy gale, as in the case of the hurricane of June, in my 

 first memoir. To the eastward we find that the " Indian Queen" on 

 this day was discharging cargo at Vizagapatam, and that the red ap- 

 pearance noted there, is the only indication of any change of weather, 

 in the absence of the barometer. 



On the 1 6th we find that the iC Ripley/' " Arethusa," and "Rosalind'' 

 had all fine weather, and again by noon they had borne up and made 

 sail, so that the hurricane must have moved very rapidly past them, 

 and have been of small extent. We have for this day's data the some- 

 what vague accounts from Vizagapatam, Coringa, and the Hope Island 

 Lighthouse, but fortunately also the " Indian Queen's" log. 



That of the " Jane" is very imperfect; the circle or its influence seems 

 to have been just reaching Vizagapatam at noon ; for we find that during 

 the morsing " it veered to the northward, and blew hard the whole 

 day, varying from NE. to north, mostly north ; the strength of the gale 

 blowing about 10 a.m., and that in the evening the wind veered back to 

 the eastward; blowing steadily all night from ENE. to east," showing 

 that the centre of the vortex had passed somewhere to the south. 



At Coringa itself we find some discrepancy in the simple report of 

 the Collector, and that of the Lighthouse-keeper on Hope Island, which 

 bears from the flag staff on Coringa, about EbS. distant five miles. 

 This last report would place the centre to the north eastward at the be- 

 ginning of it, and yet according to the latter part of it, and to the Collec- 

 tor's report, it must have passed to the southward. I suppose these 

 anomalies in the direction of the wind, as well as any which may have 

 occurred in the direction of the storm, — for I take the Lighthouse-keep- 

 er's report to be the correct one, as to the direction of the wind, which 

 as a seaman he was most likely to estimate correctly — to have been owing 

 either to irregularities which do occur near the centres, or to have been 

 caused by the deflection of the first efforts of the wind against the 

 chain of the Rajamundry hills, to the northward, and not far inland, 

 against which, the direct line of the storm from seaward was impinging, 

 and by the opening of the valley of the Godavery. From the log of the " In- 

 dian Queen," I have placed the centre at noon about where it is marked, 



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