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Researches on the Gale and Hurricane [August, 



u The inclosed notes I made in original, and regret not having it 



in my power to comply more fully with your request." 



June, 1839. 

 June 1st. Light airs from NE. to E. cloudy at times. 

 2nd. Ditto, Ditto. 



3rd. ENE. cloudy, or slight showers from ESE. 

 4th. Ditto, ditto light fresh breezes with slight showers. 

 5th. Heavy ENE. wind, very cloudy with light showers. 

 6th. Ditto ENE. with constant sleet and rain. 



7th. Heavy ENE. with sleet, wind veered S. to SSE. occasional showers. 

 8th. Heavy ENE. veering round to South with rain — night, Northerly. 

 9th. Fresh ENE. cloudy with heavy showers. 



10th. Rain almost all day — clouds flying from East — Light airs from West, a 

 great deal of rain has fallen, the nullahs rising very high, threatening to 

 overtop their banks.* 



At Ghazeepore lat. 25° 35' N. long. 83° 33' E. and 41 miles East of 

 Benares and 84 miles W.-JS. from Chuprah, Dr. Jackson kindly forwards 

 me a journal for the month of June, from which the following is an ex- 

 tract, which I copy to the 1 1th, to shew how remarkably they agree with 

 those of Mr. Ravenshaw from Chuprah, in the sudden change of the 

 wind, from ESE.— which we may call its average from the 1st to the 

 7th, — to SW. on the 8th. The subsequent changes seem to indicate, as 

 before said, that the more direct current of the monsoon had for a 

 short time forced its way upwards; for the remainder of the month 

 the wind is variable from E. to W. with sultry weather, as usual there 

 in the month of June. 



Winds. 



0) 



j3 





H 



ESE. 



98 



ESE. 

 ESE. 



98 

 99 



ESE. 



98 



ESbE. 

 SEbE. 



SEbE. 



92 



86 

 86 



SW. 



80 



SW.toESE. 



80 



ESE. 



84 



WSW. 



•88 



June, 1839. — Remarks, 8$c. 



Pleasant breezes, fair weather, 11 a.m. cloudy with a few 



drops of rain, hot and sultry. 

 Light breezes, fair weather, hot and sultry. 

 Fresh ditto, cloudy, at intervals hot and sultry ; at 1/30 p. m. a 



squall, no rain. 

 Fresh breezes, cloudy at intervals, with hard squalls, fair 



weather. 

 a. m. cloudy and showery, hard gales with showers at intervals. 

 Hard gales, dark cldy. weather, showers at intervals, night rainy. 

 Ditto ditto ditto ditto with heavy rain, 7 p. m. wind shifted to 



the SW. 

 Dark cloudy rainy weather, with hard squalls of wind, 6 p.m. 



fair and continued during night. 

 Morning dark, cloudy and fair, which continued throughout, 5 



p. m. wind shifted to the ESE. 

 At 3 a. m. dark and cloudy with drizzling rain, at 5 fair, 



moderate breezes. 

 a.m. dark and cloudy, with thunder, lightning and rain, at 8 



fair moderate breezes, passing clouds. 

 Ghazeepore, J. JACKSON, 



September 14*A, 1839. Civil Surgeon. 



* In the Northern parts of the district much more rain fell, both the Coosey and 

 Mahanuddee were uncommonly high for the time of the year. 



