1839.] on the 3d, Ath, and 5th of June, 1839. 633 



Balasore, July 31s/, 1839. 



Dear Sir, — I should have been much at your service in giving 

 you all the requisite information concerning the gale here, had any 

 taken place, but we had only strong gusts of wind at NE. to SE. 

 with uncommon heavy rain on the 5th, 6th, and part of the 7th of 

 June, which even to this day has kept back the rice crops. The ther- 

 mometer fell to 81 1°, and unluckily my barometer was broken a few days 

 prior, so that we could only foretel a gale coming on by the black- 

 ness of the heavens to the Eastward ; which gale did not reach from the 

 Northward of Point Palmiras to Balasore, but blew hard from Point 

 Palmiras to below Pooree to the Southward. No vessels were lost in 

 the Balasore roads ; but to the Eastward they may have been lost, as a 

 Telingah topgallant mast was picked up, besides pieces of deal boxes, 

 supposed to have contained glass-ware, marked " Protector" which 

 vessel was lost to the Eastward, between the reefs, last October. 



Gales at Kedgeree, though blowing dead to windward of us, distant 

 seventy-five miles, do not always reach this coast ; as in the May 

 Hurricane of 1833, when the " Duke of York" was blown from her 

 moorings at Saugor across to Hidgelee, and became a wreck, yet 

 the gale did not reach here, although the bank to the Eastward 

 in the heavens so plainly indicated a gale, that every person here 

 barred up their doors and nailed them. We only had a good topgal- 

 lant breeze. 



The Neilgherry Hills appear to influence the winds much on the 

 coast north of Point Palmiras, as the winds are generally throughout 

 theSW. monsoon, SW. toW. in the morning to 7 a. m., veering round 

 to S. and SE. p. m. ; and in the NE. monsoon, W. to NW. veering 

 round to NE. after 8 a. m. 



{Signed) A. BOND. 



Mr. Richardson, Branch Pilot, informs me, moreover, that during the 

 fury of the Gale of 1833, in which the " Duke of York" was wrecked, 

 and he himself was driving about with all his anchors down, some 

 passengers whom he had previously landed at the Black Pagoda were 

 upon the top of it, and felt no excessively violent wind, though they 

 saw the horizon very black, and the sea dreadfully agitated to the 

 North Westward of them. 



The slow rate at which our vortices travel onwards is very remark- 

 able, but seems, if future observation should confirm it, to afford coun- 

 tenance to this theory ; for, as before said, we may consider them as pent 

 up between the current passing round the vortex of the parabola and the 

 Coromandel range; and no doubt to feel, as water in similar channels 

 would do, the repulsion from these last. It is clear, as shewn in p. 576, 

 by the log of the " Indian Oak," that the monsoon was blowing up 

 along the coast as far as Vizagapatam, from between which and Gan- 



