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ing the heavy swell and N. W. squall, described there in Captain 

 Brown and Dr. Hinton's reports. 



Farther northward in the Bay, we find the John William Dare, 

 (which vessel had done all she could to get to the N. W., since she bore 

 up on the 1st in about latitude 18° North,) with her Barometer falling 

 to 29.00, and a strong W. N. W. gale ; but she does not appear to 

 have been within the true circle of the storm, which hereabouts and 

 at this time was only perhaps slightly influencing the true S. W. 

 monsoon by its Southern quadrants. We have thus no data in the 

 middle of the northern part of the Bay, nor on its Eastern shores ; and 

 on its Western side from 15° to 17£° N., and towards the meridian of 

 False Point we have nothing in the logs of the Ariel, Algerine, and Norfolk, 

 but a strong or heavy monsoon. We must thus infer that the Calcutta 

 storm commences, for us, with the log of the Beacon, the outer Light Ves- 

 sel at noon, where with her and at Calcutta there was a gale at N. E.,* 

 and that it was of small extent, and yet very irregular, (perhaps still 

 forming ?) for though the Beacon had a steady gale at N. E., the Hope 

 Light Vessel, 25 miles to the N. N. W. of her, seems to have had it 

 very variable and Easterly, and at Kedgeree and on the river it was 

 mostly between North and N. N.E. throughout the day, settling at N. 

 E. at noon at Kedgeree. To seaward, the Cauvery off False Point, and 

 the Augustus and Panthea off the Black Pagoda and Ganjam, had the 

 storm of the 1st moderating and running into the monsoon from S. W. 

 and S. S. W. to West. The Cauvery was at this time (noon) about the 

 same distance to the S. W. or S. S. W. of the Beacon, that Calcutta 

 is to the North of her station, and the centre of the storm to give 

 the Beacon the wind at N. E., must have been about on the latitude 

 of False Point, which would have given the Cauvery a Northerly 

 (N. by E. to N. N. W.) wind, and not one from the S. W., which 

 she now had. We find indeed that it was nearly midnight when she 

 had winds from the N. W., that is when the Cauvery's hurricane 

 had sufficiently left her to allow the Calcutta one to be felt, though 

 it was now very severe with the Coleroon, which vessel was obliged to 

 run out, and almost met the centre coming up, as the rapid change 

 from E. N. E. to W. S. W., or 16 points in the 24 hours, or less time 



* Which moderated in the evening at Calcutta, but increased again towards mid- 

 night. 



