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miles distance, sufficiently high, (from 500 to 1500 feet above the 

 plain,) to influence the direction of ordinary aerial currents. These 

 observations only go to note the fact of the storm's influence having 

 been severely felt in this latitude so far inland, its duration, and ge- 

 neral direction. I much regret the absence of a Barometer, particu- 

 larly on this occasion, where the atmospheric depression appears to 

 have been so remarkable, and so extensively and simultaneously felt 

 over the greater part of Peninsular India ; the fall of the Barometer hav- 

 ing been noted at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. From what I can 

 glean from my correspondents, I find that its chief fury was experienced 

 between 15° and 19° N. latitude and from 76° to 84° E. longitude. 



At Yelgode it was ushered in by two days of cold drizzly weather, 

 the atmosphere was charged with low clouds that came from the West- 

 ward and hung in wreaths on the Eastern Ghauts. The Thermo- 

 meter fell from 99° at 2 p. m. the hottest part of the day to 76°. 

 On the 22d at 8 p. m. it commenced to blow strongly from the N. and 

 N. W., increasing at 9 p. m. to a perfect gale, attended with rain, but 

 no thunder, which continued with little intermission during the whole 

 of the night. The next morning, at 10 a. m, a lull took place of an 

 hour's duration. At 11 a. m. it recommenced, rain and wind unattended 

 by thunder, as fiercely as before, never ceasing till the following morn- 

 ing, the 24th, when the sky cleared. The wind however continued 

 strong from the N. and N. W. during the day. 25th was cloudy, rainy 

 and stormy, strong gusts of wind from the W. In the night it rained 

 heavily with thunder and lightning. 26th settled rain, calm. 27th set- 

 tled rain, light winds variable. 28th clear in the afternoon, and wea- 

 ther gradually assumed its usual tone. Though the storm's chief force 

 was expended on the Coromandel coast in the latitudes mentioned, yet 

 it was also felt on the Western coast so far South as 1 1°. Near Telli- 

 cherry between the 21st and 25th of May, about 15 Patimars were 

 wrecked along the coast. 



From Tellicherey on the Malabar Coast, I have the following notice 

 with a register of the weather at Cannanore, kindly forwarded by 

 J. W. Fkaser, Esq., Collector. 

 I do myself the pleasure to enclose some atmospheric observations 



for the month of May last. You may have taken notice from the public 



