JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



A Tenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, being the Madras 

 and Masulipatam Storm of 2\st to 2'Srd May, 1843. By 

 Henry Piddington. With a Chart. 



Between the 21st and 23rd May, 1843, a very severe hurricane was 

 experienced on the coast of Coromandel, which seems to have extended 

 from a short distance South of Madras to Masulipatam and Coringa. 

 Great mischief was occasioned by it on shore and along the coast, and 

 several vessels foundered at sea, or were driven on shore, among which 

 were the ships and brigs Amelia Thompson, Favorite, Inez, Union, 

 Braemar, Joseph and Victor, &c. with others more or less disabled. 



It is to the always active zeal of Captain Biden of Madras, that 

 I am indebted for the greater part of the documents from which the 

 present Memoir is drawn up. I have as usual abridged them as far 

 as possible, but so as to preserve carefully all the essential facts. I 

 commence at Madras, with the logs of the ships farthest to the 

 Southward ; I then take those to the Eastward to trace the storm in its 

 progress across the Bay, and finally, I give those to the North of Ma- 

 dras, as far as Calcutta. I then add, as usual, a summary shewing 

 the grounds on which I have laid down the track of the storm, and 

 embodying such other remarks as may have occurred to me. 



Abridged Log of the Ship Bussorah Merchant, Captain Farrier, 

 from Bombay to Calcutta, reduced to civil time. 



\%th May 1843. — p. m. strong monsoon, W. N. W. and West, with 

 squalls and rain. 4 p. m. abreast of Point de Galle, distance 7 miles. 



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