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



up all hopes. For five days they had no observation, but managed to 

 run down into Camaraigne Bay, where they procured wood and 

 water, but the former too green to burn. In a day or two afterwards 

 they got amplitudes, and were enabled to rectify the error in the com- 

 passes, when they prosecuted the remainder of their voyage here in 

 safety. 



Captain Hewett of course expected to find that his consort had 

 reached this port long before his own vessel — but she having neither 

 arrived here, nor been otherwise heard of, apprehensions begin to be 

 entertained of her ultimate safety. 



The Medusa is now under orders to proceed to Maulmain, for 

 which she will set out in the course of a few days. — Ibid. 



The foregoing are all the records which I have hitherto obtained. 

 I now proceed to offer a few deductions, practical and speculative, from 

 them ; the practical ones not as rules, but rather as hints for forming a 

 judgment, and both as suggestions for those who may desire to aid 

 in future researches in this important branch of science. 



I commence with a tabular view of the tracks laid down in the Chart. 



