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3rd June. — Same weather, wind from S. S. W. to S. W. at noon, 

 Latitude 14° 21' N. 82° 53' E. 



This vessel's log is given for 4th, 5th and 6th, but it is evident, as 

 by the foregoing extracts, that she had only a heavy monsoon. 



Abridged Log of the Barque Norfolk, Captain from Calcutta 



to Mauritius, civil time, 



21th May.— Noon latitude 20° 15' N. longitude 88° 54' E. 



28th May.— At noon latitude 19° 40' N. longitude 88° 5' E. Light 

 winds, and fine till midnight. 



29th May. — At 8 a. m. increasing winds N. E. Noon latitude 18° 82' 

 N. longitude 87° 15' E. Steady breeze N. by E. to midnight, when 

 squally with passing showers. 



30th May — At 8, increasing winds N. N. W. At noon N. W. lati- 

 tude 17° 00' longitude 87° 00' E. going 6 knots to the S. £ W. 2 p. m. 

 heavy squalls from the N. W. increasing to midnight ; preparing for 

 bad weather. 



3\st May. — a. m. strong winds and heavy squalls N. W. 6 a. m. 

 more moderate. Noon brisk wind, varying from West to North* till 

 midnight. Latitude at noon 15° 20', N. longitude 88° 10'. E. Midnight 

 cloudy with squalls. 



1$/ June — a. m. wind marked S. W. Strong breeze and cloudy, 

 with a heavy swell from the S. W. Noon squally. Latitude 14° 35' N., 

 longitude 89° 25' E. Midnight brisk gales and cloudy. 



2nd June. — Throughout brisk gales S. W. and cloudy. Noon lati- 

 tude 15° 10', longitude 88° 40' E. 



SECTION II. 



Eastern Shores of the Bay, with Burrisal and Dacca. 



Dr. Hinton, Civil Surgeon of Akyab, in an account of the storm of 

 the 14th and 15th May, on the Eastern shores of the Bay, which with 

 that of December 1841, will form the subject of another memoir now 

 in preparation, sends the following memorandum relative to that of 

 June, which we are now investigating. 



" Since writing the above, I have seen in the Englishman a notice 



* So in the lojj. 



