1842.] A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 611 



There is however another and a more probable reason to account 

 for the slight anomaly, taking the storm to have begun at noon, 

 and from the North, as Mr. Redfield supposes, which is, that at this 

 time the Buccleugh was only 50 miles from the coast of China, which 

 being high, would, as we positively know in the case of the storms 

 of the Bay of Bengal, occasion variations in the direction of the wind, 

 and probably influence that of the centre itself. We cannot venture 

 upon such slender data to mark any thing more than a conjectural 

 track for this storm on our chart, but we may be satisfied that it 

 travelled from the Eastward towards the West, and veered according 

 to the Law of Storms in the Northern hemisphere. 



TRACKS No. III. and IV— September 20th to 23rd, 1803. 



Documents from the India House and Captain Biden. 



On the 20th to 23d of September, 1803, a fleet of the Hon'ble Com- 

 pany's ships, consisting of the Warley, Royal George, Bombay Castle, 

 Alfred, Coutts, Earl Camden, and Ganges, experienced two very 

 severe tyfoons in the China Seas. Of these ships, the first three, viz. 

 Warley, Royal George, and Alfred, were close in with the Coast of 

 China, and some of them were anchored off St. John's, while the last 

 four, Coutts, Earl Camden, Bombay Castle and Ganges, were about 

 latitude 16° N. and thus at least 6° South of the others. We should 

 have then consequently, as it were, two fleets on opposite sides of a 

 great storm of 6° of latitude, or say 400 miles if it was one storm, or 

 if there were two, the two fleets still serve to define their tracks and 

 limits. I shall subsequently give a full detail of how they do so. 



My authorities are the logs of the ships from the East India House, 

 from Captain Biden, who was a Midshipman in the Royal George, and 

 the log of that ship, with a private memorandum of Captain Torin's 

 of the Coutts. I commence with the logs of the ships off the Coast of 

 China, reducing them to civil time. 



