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gular monsoon, which we must always allow for in considering the 

 effects of a storm at this season of the year. 



For its track inland, all we can say is, that it was, as appears by 

 the newspaper report, most severely felt, both as a storm and in 

 the shape of inundations arising from excessive rains, through the 

 Guntoor and neighbouring districts, which are more or less in a line 

 between Ongole and Hydrabad, and that it must have passed to the 

 North of that city, being there first a gale from N. E. and veering to 

 N. W. and at Yelgode, which is situated about 1 10 miles South of Hy- 

 drabad and thus on the Southern side of the track, it was always a 

 storm from North and N. W. 



The heavy surfs on the Malabar coast, alluded to in Mr. Fraser's 

 letter, with the threatening weather at the ports of Mangalore and 

 Tellicherry, and the remarkable depression of the Barometer at Bombay, 

 are all proofs that the storm was very widely felt as to its general 

 atmospheric influence ; but we cannot for want of a date connect the 

 dismasting of the Caroline or the storm of the Julius Caesar with our 

 data, from distance, time, and the want of all intermediate evidence. 

 We may presume it not improbable that like the Calcutta storm of 

 June 1842, it was " lifted up" by the table land of the Deccan, and 

 perhaps descended again in the Arabian sea, but of this we have no evi- 

 dence ; such as we have, I have placed upon record, because it is of great 

 importance to have even the imperfect notion which it gives of these 

 curious passages of storms over the Ghauts. 



Rate of Travelling. — We have only one day, 2 1st to 22nd, from which 

 we can take any safe data for its rate of travelling at sea. The distance 

 between these two centres is 240 miles, which gives exactly 10 miles an 

 hour, and from the centre of the 22nd instant to a supposed point 

 50 miles to the North of Hydrabad, where we may take the centre to 

 have been at some time on the 23d instant, is about 350 miles, which for 

 36 hours is also about the same rate. I need not add that this last 

 datum is of course almost guess work, but it serves to shew that the 

 storm probably had not, in this instance, experienced much retardation, 

 in its course up the valley of the Godavery, which it seems to have fol- 

 lowed at least for some distance. 



It is then an instance, and to these researches a new one, of a storm 

 apparently generated in the centre of the Bay at the change of the 



