1839.] Vocabulary of the Mech Language. 631 



Names of Men. Names of Women. 



Chakla, Phagooni, 



Sunka, Bisaje, 



Balasache, Bisahawa, 



Deringa sache, Furgunnic. 



Poojoon, 



Esula, 



Puharoo, 



Oonti, 



Jenti tokla, 



Mhedla, 



Secuta. A. CAMPBELL. 



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

 Bengal on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of June, 1839; with reference 

 to the Theory of the haw of Storms in India. By Henry 



PlDDINGTON. 



PART II. 



That the hurricane part of the tempest which we are considering 

 was blowing in tolerably well defined circles, has been, I think, clearly 

 shewn in the foregoing part of this memoir. The object of this second 

 part, is to adduce evidence, which shews that it was at the same time both 

 agate, i. e. a strong wind blowing in with tolerable steadiness from one 

 quarter of the compass ; and a hurricane, namely, a violent wind blow- 

 ing in a circle or vortex of greater or less diameter. At present too it 

 seems probable, from the dates, that the gale produced the hurricane. 

 We may consider that this storm was one of those which usually occur at 

 the change of the moonsoon from NE. to SW., which in various parts 

 of the Bay may be said to take place between the 15th May and 

 15th June. It is from the 1st to the 15th June that we look for the 

 rains in Calcutta, though sometimes, as in this year, they may be said 

 to have begun in April. It will be borne in mind then, that whatever 

 follows, whether facts or hypotheses, relates only to the beginning of 

 the SW. monsoon. Future observations will inform us, whether the 

 October Gales as they are called, — though they sometimes occur in No- 

 vember, — are subject to the same or different laws. (The European 

 reader will recollect, that October is the epoch at which, the NE. 

 monsoon takes the place of the SW. one.) 



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