652 A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 127. 



I shall not forget to notice this subject at the conclusion of the present 

 memoir. 



1827. 



The object of the present memoir being not only to present details 

 of well-ascertained storms, but also to record such imperfect knowledge 

 as may reach us of other tempests in the China Seas, in the hope, that 

 these notices may one day elicit others, I make no apology for inserting 

 two notices from the valuable memoranda sent me by Mr. Packman, 

 through the Honorable the Court of Directors. 



H. C. S. Scaleby Castle, China Sea off Palawan. 



2J 'th October 1827- — After having had for the three or four previous 

 days, strong breezes from the N. W. to S. W., with squalls and rain, 

 and continual thick weather, so that we could get no sights for latitude, 

 either by day or night, it came on to blow a fresh gale in the latter 

 part of the 26th, continuing to the 27th, and moderating on the follow, 

 ing days with fine weather, when we obtained sights and ascertained 

 our exact position ; we were then at anchor amongst the Paraguas, off 

 the Coast of Palawan ; we had moderate Westerly winds for the next 

 three or four days, as we stood to the Northward. Lat. about 9° 00' 

 N.,long. 118° 00' E. 



2nd and 3rd November. — H. C. S. Scaleby Castle Variable light 



airs. Latitude observed 13° 5& N., longitude per Chron. 119° 20' E. 



4th November. — Moderate breezes from the N. W. in the first and 

 middle parts, latterly fresh from the Northward with hazy weather. 

 Latitude observed 14° 22' N., longitude 119° 27' E. Blowing a fresh 

 gale from the Northward in the first and middle parts, latterly mo- 

 derating with fine weather throughout, and on the following day 

 moderate Northerly breezes and cloudy weather. Lat. observed 14° 12', 

 longitude per Chron. 119° 19'. 



The foregoing two storms do not furnish us with any fair data from 

 which to deduce a track, but the first may have been the Southern 

 half of a storm passing a couple of degrees to the Northward of the 

 ship's position. 





