1844.] Tenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 1 1 1 



shore and in part the monsoon. For the 22d we have first the logs of 

 the ships off the mouth of the Godavery as before, all of which had had 

 the storm commencing on the 21st at about N. E. and drawing gradual- 

 ly to E. N. E. and E. S. E. according to their positions. 



They had it on this day, by noon, a hurricane at S. E. to S. S. E. 

 veering rapidly to South and S. S. W. as it passed them. "With 

 the Lord Lyndoch and Champion indeed it was a shift of wind, but we 

 have not unfortunately their positions to any accuracy; indeed those 

 positions which are given, though most creditable to the care and 

 attention of the commanders of the ships, must still be taken with 

 much allowance ; for, in the position they were, there was not only the 

 usual causes, drift, leeway and heave of the sea operating, but more- 

 over the " storm wave," " storm current" and probably an outset 

 from the floods of the Godavery, all combining to affect the calculated 

 position of the vessels. As however the whole of the ships were, like 

 a dispersed fleet, within a circle of 120 miles in diameter, it will be seen 

 by the chart that in placing the centre for this day at noon in 

 latitude 15° 45', longitude 82° T ; we shall as nearly as possible give 

 the ships the winds veering as they really did, as well as to the three 

 stations of Masulipatam and Coringa, at the first and Southermost of 

 which, Masulipatam, the storm was increasing at 5 p. m. of the day 

 from the N. E. and N. N. E. shewing evidently that its track towards 

 the shore was to the South of that port. 



On the 23rd we have the storm moderating, with all the ships in the 

 offing, to a regular monsoon gale, and on shore at Masulipatam veer- 

 ing also to the E. S. E. and subsequently to the S. and S. by W. We 

 do not learn where the centre passed inland, as there are no European 

 stations between Masulipatam and Ongole, a distance of 95 miles : it is 

 probable that the centre landed somewhere between these two stations. 

 I have carried my strait line near to Ongole, but not meaning thereby to 

 indicate that we have any knowledge of the exact point at which the 

 centre struck the shore. It was I think more to the North, as the 

 storm would probably travel up the valley of the Kistnah. 



At Madras and with the ships which put to sea from the roads of 

 that port, the storm was, as it should be, on the Southern quadrants of 

 a circular, one passing to the North East and North of that point, a gale 

 veering from N. N. W. to N. W. and West, and subsiding into the re- 



