1002 A Seventh Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, [No. 131. 



5-30 Tremendous gusts S. W., . . . . Barometer. 28.385 



6 p.m., 28.525 



6-30 Terrific squalls, . . . . 28.580 



7 „ ditto „ 28.650 



7-30 Very heavy, but more moderate between the gusts, .. 28.710 



8 Heavy gusts again, S. W., 28-755 



8-30 ditto, 28.815 



9 Heavy gusts, but more moderate in the intervals, . . 28.850 

 9-30 Moderating, but with sudden and severe gusts, . . 28.895 



10 Sudden gusts, 28.925 



10-30 ditto, wind perhaps S. S. W 28.985 



10-45 ditto, still with severe gusts, .. .. .. ..28.995 



11-50 ditto, 29.000 



4th June.— At 2 a. m., moderating, but still strong gale S.W., 29.015 



At 4 a. m. strong monsoon gale, . . 29.045 



6-10 Strong breezes, but at intervals nearly calm, . . .. 29.105 

 10-20 Calm, with breezes at times from the S. W., .. .. 29.215 



From this time till Sunday, the Barometer was slowly rising to 

 about 29.38, with at times a variable ' monsoon gale' from S. W., with 

 intervals of calm, and at others blowing hard in squalls with rain. 



From the shift of wind — though in the absence of documents, and 

 on shore, an opinion of the kind is liable to error — I should take this 

 storm to have come up on a track of about S. E. by E. to the N. W. 

 by W.,* in which case, and taking into account the heavy monsoon 

 which was coming up with it, great fears of an inundation about Bur- 

 risal and Backergunge may be entertained. From the previous state 

 of the weather, I am impressed with the idea, that it may, not impro- 

 bably, have been also a storm crossing over to us from the China seas, 

 which has occurred before. My Barometer, I should say, is corrected 

 to that of the Surveyor General's Office. 



The following are the Barometrical and other observations from 

 the Surveyor General's Office at Calcutta, from the 26th May, when 

 the gradual depression below the monthly average to which I have 

 alluded at page 1000 commenced, until the 10th June, when about the 

 same pressure again returned. 



* I was three points wrong in this estimate, the track being from S. S. E. to 

 N. N. W. See Summary. 



