1839.] New Nizamut Palace of Moorshedabad. 559 



subordinate to him, concerned in its erection. The late rainy season 

 was one of uncommon violence, and had just closed when our survey 

 was made, and the soil far and wide was either inundated or 

 saturated with moisture. Nothing could have more searchingly tested 

 the strength and solidity of a newly erected edifice ; but not a crack 

 or symptom of yielding was to be seen, externally or within, through- 

 out the whole extent of this fabric; and we conclude our remarks 

 upon it with the expression of a grateful anticipation, that a lengthen- 

 ed durability awaits what we have represented as so pre-eminently 

 worthy of a lasting preservation. 



In conclusion, we would here recapitulate, in a few words, the 

 opinion to which our inquiries have led regarding the three points to 

 which reference is made in the second paragraph of our report. 



As to the execution of the works, our verdict after a careful exa- 

 mination of all that presented itself to our view, is one of unqualified 

 approval and commendation. 



A plan of the premises with which the architect has kindly fur- 

 nished the Committee, is appended ; and will render intelligible at 

 a glance the relative sites of the different buildings forming the subject 

 of this report. We have, &c. 



{Signed) R. H. RATTRAY, 

 W. CRACROFT, 

 Calcutta, „ HENRY DEBUDE, 



JO/A Nov., 1838. „ W.R.FITZGERALD. 



Art. IV. — Researches on the Gale and Hurricane in the Bay of 

 Bengal on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of June, 1839/ being a first 

 Memoir with reference to the Theory of the haw of Storms in 

 India. By Henry Piddington. 



PART I. 



The notices of Colonel Reid's Book on the Law of Storms, which 

 appeared in the Calcutta papers and Edinburgh Review, had much 

 excited my attention ; for the subject was, to me, one connected with 

 many associations of early life, and more especially with one instance 

 in which to the veering of a hurricane alone I owed my safety from 

 shipwreck, after cutting away the mainmast of a vessel which I com- 

 manded. 



Hence, having some leisure when the tempest of the 2nd to the 6th 

 of June, 1839, occurred off the Sand Heads, I was induced to under- 

 take the investigation of its different phenomena, with a view to see 

 how far they would accord with the theory of the Law of Storms. 



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