972 A Seventh Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. ("No. 131. 



should I in any one instance have omitted to do so, I request the 

 party to believe that this is wholly unintentional, and arises from my 

 having no other time than the intervals of business, and hours of 

 rest or relaxation, to devote to the research. 



I now give the different documents, observing that I have invari- 

 ably abridged them by retrenching all matter, and even phrases and 

 words, which do not strictly relate to our subject. The Logs of ships 

 from Ceylon and the Andamans to the Sand Heads, are naturally the 

 first class, as tracing the storm from seaward, and shewing the state 

 of the weather in the Bay. 



SECTION I. 



SHIPS IN THE BAY OF BENGAL. 



Extract from the hog of the Barque John Craig, Captain G. 

 Pettingall, from Algoa Bay to Calcutta, reduced to civil time. 



30th May, 1842.— At 10 a. m. a heavy squall, wind W. S. W. 

 Noon latitude 5° 49' N., long. 84° 42' E., p. m. strong gales W. S. W., 

 Thermometer 80°, Barometer 29.5. 



S\st May- — Throughout strong and hard gale W. S. W. Noon la- 

 titude 9° 7' N., longitude 85° 5' E. Thermometer 84, Barometer 29.4. 



1st June — Heavy gales W. S. W. and hazy weather throughout. 

 Noon latitude 11° 45' N., longitude 84° 23' E. Thermometer 85°, 

 Barometer 29.3. 



2nd Jwwe.— Heavy gales W. S. W. Towards midnight S. W. for a 

 few hours. Noon latitude 14° 17' N., longitude 83° 34' E. Thermo- 

 meter 85°, Barometer 29.2. Under close-reefed top sails for the last 

 two or three days. 



3rd June— Fresh gales W. S. W. and S. W. Latitude 16° 34' N. 

 longitude 82° 53' E. 4 p. m. made land about Coringa, wind South. 



4th June. — Steady breezes. Latitude noon 17° 50' N., longitude 

 84° 0' E. 



