578 Researches on the Gale and Hurricane [July, 



chored again in four fathoms water. Latter part weather as before. 

 Bar. 29° 30'. 



3rd June. — First part heavy gale from SSE. with a tremendous sea ; 

 vessel labouring heavily, and making thirty inches of water per hour. 

 Daylight, barometer rising; strong gale, with heavy thunder and rain, 

 and dark heavy appearance all round ; noon, gale abating, with heavy 

 squalls, thunder, lightning, and rain. Bar. 29° 50', Ther. 84°. Lat- 

 ter, gale abating, with heavy rain and a high sea. Bar. 29° 60'. 



4th June, — First part strong breezes with squalls, thunder, and hea- 

 vy rain ; daylight, breeze abating ; Bar. 29° 75' Ther. 85°. Shipped 

 the rudder, and sent up topgallant yards and masts. Latter part 

 smart breezes. Bar. 29° 80'. 



hth June. — Smart breezes from SE. and a high sea rolling in from 

 SW. ; made sail for Chittagong. The direction of the wind has been 

 omitted in this log on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, but it seems evident that 

 it was from the S. or between S. and SSE. throughout. The log 

 is very valuable, as shewing that the gale here, on the extreme East- 

 ern side of the Bay, was at its height in the night between the 2nd and 

 3rd June. 



No. 27- — Barque " Louisa" in the Harbour of Akyab. 



Saturday \st June, 1839. — Moderate breezes and cloudy weather. 

 Direction of the wind not stated, and nothing further in the log. 



2nd June, 1839. — Commences with fresh breezes and cloudy wea- 

 ther ; middle and latter parts, hard gales with small rain ; winds 

 Easterly. 



3rd June, 1839.— During these twenty-four hours brisk gales and 

 showers of rain ; winds Easterly. 



4th June. — During these twenty-four hours the same as yesterday. 



5th June. — During these twenty-four hours East winds with gales, 

 and falls of rain. 



6th June. — For these twenty-four hours, SW. winds and moderate. 



To exhibit the foregoing Logs in a collected view, for ready refer- 

 ence, I have arranged all the principal facts in the following series of 

 Tables from the 1st to the 5th June, exhibiting thus at one view the 

 weather experienced by the different ships, and their positions at noon 

 on the same day. No account has been taken of the small difference 

 of apparent noon occasioned by the difference of longitude, as there is 

 nothing which requires this degree of exactness. It will be remarked 

 that throughout the difference between the Easterly and Westerly 

 winds occurs about lat. 19° 30'. The log of the "Indian Oak" is 

 omitted, as not being of importance. 



