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for two evenings, (the 4th and 5th,) from the North East, led me to 

 anticipate, in common with others, a serious disturbance to the equili- 

 brium of our atmospheric system. 



Your's obediently, 

 Chowpatty, 22d June, 1842. BOREAS. 



The Calcutta Hurricane of the 3rd and 4th June, 1842. 



When we promised in our last to revert to this subject, we were 

 under the impression, that we should have been able to lay our hands 

 on a larger body of facts, to have placed beside those supplied by Mr. 

 Piddington, than that wherewith we have as yet had it in our power 

 to supply ourselves : we despair not as further returns come in, yet to 

 obtain information bearing on that collected at Calcutta. We subjoin 

 an extract from the register of the Bombay Observatory for the 2nd, 

 3rd, 4th, and 6th of June, — the 5th being Sunday, when no observa- 

 tions were made. On the 1st, the Barometer had not departed from 

 its usual average. On the 2nd, it had fallen somewhat, but that not 

 much ; and it was on the morning of the 3rd that it first began to as- 

 sume symptoms of extreme irregularity. This state of matters conti- 

 nued all over the 4th. By the 6th, the instrument had assumed its 

 ordinary monsoon level. As formerly stated, the belief amongst the 

 natives was universal, that a tempest might be looked for about the 

 5th; nothing came, however, and the falling of the instrument was 

 generally, and too correctly, assumed to have been occasioned by a 

 tempest raging at a distance. 



Barometer uncorrected. 



Time. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4th. 



6th. 



6 A. M. 



29.608 



29596 



29.530 



29.610 



7 



.630 



.618 



.560 



.620 



8 



.656 



.634 



.572 



.638 



9 



.660 



.640 



.592 



.656 



9* 



.664 



.636 



.592 



.660 



10 



.664 



.636 



.592 



.664 



104 



.656 



.636 



.592 



.664 



