1842.] A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 663 



Storm of 5th and 6th October, 1831. 

 Notes from the East India House. 



*5th October — H. C. Ship Farquharson, Captain Campbell, lying 

 at Whampoa, had a strong gale from the Westward* with severe gusts. 

 Weather too severe for a craft to lie alongside. 



&h October, 1831. — H. C. S. Lowther Castle, at anchor in Wham- 

 poa reach. A severe gale commencing at North, veering round to the 

 East, and then moderating, with incessant hard rain throughout. Baro- 

 meter fell to 29.17. 



TRACKS No. XVI, XVII, and XVIII. 



Manilla, Panama's andFoRT William's Tyfoon of 23d, 2ith, and 



25th October, 1831. 



Documents from Col. Reid, Capt. Biden, and the Voyage of La Place. 

 Between sun-set of the 23d, and sun-rise of the 24th October, 1831, 

 a tremendous tyfoon was experienced at Manilla, in which almost all 

 the ships at Cavite, and those lying at the bar, before Manilla, were 

 driven on shore. The American ship Panama, and the English ship 

 Fort William, also experienced severe storms in the China seas, about 

 the same time, I have first given their different logs, reduced to civil 

 time where necessary, and then a table from which I should deduce, 

 that the Manilla storm, and that of the Panama, were undoubtedly 

 one storm, but that of the Fort William a different one. 



Log of H. M. Frigate Crocodile, Captain R. Bancroft, in Manilla 



Bay. Abridged from Col. Reid's Work, p. 284, 2d edition. 



Civil time. 



23d October, 1831. — Sun-set, increasing breeze and cloudy, veering 

 more Northward from the N. E., at which quarter it had previously 

 been. At 7, veered to 75 fathoms. At 8: 30, down top-gallant-masts, 

 and let go the best bower. At midnight very severe hurricane, with 

 heavy rain and high sea, bent the sheet-cable over all, not being able 

 to get it out of the hause hole. 



* This date and the wind at West, are so in the MSS. before me, but both are 

 contradicted by the next extract, a memorandum from the Lowther Castle's log, in 

 which the wind, at all events, is probably right. 



