G68 A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 127. 



For, as to the Fort William's storm, she may be said to have been 

 driven in it on about a S. by E. course, from latitude 25° to latitude 

 19°. and to have been dismasted about latitude 20°, with the wind at 

 N. E., while the Panama, which vessel could not have been in more 

 than 13° 30', or at most 14° N. had her second storm at S. E., being 

 then at least seven degrees to the S. E. by S. of the Fort William. 

 If the storms were the same, the Panama should have had the wind 

 S. Westerly, for a S. Easterly wind would require her to have been 

 nearly on the same parallel as the Fort William. If the storm had 

 been one also travelling up from the S. E. by S., or S. S. E. towards 

 the Fort William, it might, it is true, have been, as it was, a tremendous 

 gale at N. E., but at its close it would have veered or shifted to N. W. 

 or S. W., according as the centre passed to the East or West of her 

 position. Nothing of this sort occurred, and it is therefore clear, that 

 the Fort William's was a separate storm at N. E. and veering to the 

 Eastward, sufficiently to enable the ship to bear up for Singapore 

 when disabled : whether it was a circular storm, or only the monsoon 

 setting in late with a heavy gale, we cannot, in the absence of the 

 Barometrical observations, decide. 



We have unfortunately no records from any ship which might have 

 been at this time in the intervening space between the Panama and 

 Fort William, or say about latitude 17°, and not far from the meridian 

 of the Macclesfield Shoal. If we had, I think it not improbable, we might 

 have found that the coalition of the two storms might produce a 

 third with a curved track, like our Nos. III. and XXIII. 



It is at all events some corroboration of them to find, that the forces 

 which might produce such curved tracks have occurred. 



I have, then, with these views, assigned an E. S. E. to W. N. W. 

 track, No. XVI., for the Manilla and Panama's first storm, a conjectural 

 one No. XVII. from the S. E. to the N. W. for the Panama's second 

 storm, and one No. XVIII., (also conjectural, because it may have been 

 the monsoon, and our data are imperfect), for the Fort William's storm. 



TRACK No. XIX— Tyfoons of 1832. 

 Documents from Mr. Tied field, Captain Biden, fyc. 

 There appears to have been also during this year two severe tyfoons 

 in the China seas in this year, the one in August, and the other in 



