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A Seventh Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 131 



From Mr. M. P. Dyer, H. C. P. S. 



The following Remarks were made off Kedgeree, from 29th May 

 to the 8th June, premising that the weather prior to the 29th was 

 extremely close and oppressive, and Thermometer 95° in shade. 



Date. 



Bar. 



Wind. 



Remarks. 



May 29th, 



29.40 



S. to N. E. 



3 p. m N. E. squall and change 

 of weather. 



„ 30th, 



29.35 



E. to N. E. 



Light squalls with rain. 



„ 31st, 



29.30 



N. E. 



Squally with rain ; threatening. 



June 1st, 



29.30 



N. E. 



More moderate. 



„ 2nd, 



29.15 



Nby E. 



Strong gales, and threatening 

 with heavy rain. 



„ 3rd, 



28.73 



N. W. to W. 



Heavy gales with intervals and 

 heavy rain. 



„ 4th, 



29.00 



S. W. 



Strong breezes and moderating. 



„ 5th, 



29.20 



S. W. 



Moderate, but dull and hazy. 



„ 6th, 



29.25 



S. W. 



Do. do. squalls of rain. 



„ 7th, 



29.35 



S. W. 



Do. do. do. do. 



„ 8th, 



29.40 -J 



N. W. to E. 



S. E. & S. 



1 4 a. m. heavy N. Wester, and 

 < by noon the weather cleared 





( off, and wind S. 



The extraordinary feature in this gale is, the strength of it being 

 from the Northward and the Westward, instead of being from the East- 

 ward, as is usually the case ; and of course you are aware of the sun 

 being vertical, and moon in apogee, to which, and the extraordi- 

 nary rarefaction prior, the gale may be attributed ; in fact, from the 

 extraordinary lowness of the Barometer and N. E. winds, I, as early 

 as the 31st May, brought my Ship, the Diamond, back from Saugor 

 to Kedgeree, where we rode out the gale. It was the shift of wind 

 from N. W. to W. that drove the Globe and Symmetry from their 

 anchors, as it then blew with great violence. I have no further 

 remark to make, but that the latter part of the gale the Thermometer 

 was down to about 82°. 



JOHN DYER, 

 Master Pilot. 



