1843.] Law of Storms in India. 375 



the Cleopatra steamer encountered it on her way to Aden, and the 

 Semiramis had a midshipman washed overboard when on her voyage 

 from the Persian Gulf. We should feel greatly indebted to any officer 

 whose vessel had been exposed to it, if he would favour us with an 

 extract from his log, as to the time when, the place where, and cir- 

 cumstances under which the gale, or its symptoms, were experience by 

 him. 



The Ship Lucy Wright. 



Letters have been received from Captain Pollock of the Lucy 

 Wright, bound from Liverpool to this port, announcing that his ship, 

 was totally dismasted on the 27th ultimo, in a hurricane in lat. 13° 

 2'N. and 7 l c 39' E. 



The Lucy Wright was off Rutnagherry on the 4th instant, and the 

 Captain mentions that her hull has escaped uninjured. 



The hurricane appears to have occurred about the same time as 

 that which has done so much damage at Madras, and as it attacked 

 the Lucy Wright in the same latitude as Madras, it is not improbable 

 that it was one and the same gale. — Ibid. 



Extract from the Log Book of the ship Higginson, nautical time 

 from a Newspaper. 



28th October.— Barometer fell at 6 a. m. from 29.40 to 28.50. Lat. 18° 

 N. Long. 70° 20' E. M Very heavy gale from West to South with thun- 

 der, lightning and much rain, all sails furled, and ship hove to, con- 

 tinued so for six hours, when it began to abate." 



Abridged Log of the ship Futtay Salaam, from Mauritius to Bom- 

 bay. Forwarded by G. Buist, Esq. H. C. Astronomer at Bombay, 

 reduced to civil time. 



24th October. — Noon to midnight light breezes W. S. W. to W. N. 

 W. and fine. 



25th October. — From noon winds W. N. W. to N. W. and fine, three 

 and four knot breeze, noon Lat. 7° 55' N. Long. Chron. 68° 14' E. p. m. 

 moderate, 4 to 7 knot breeze, W. N. W. to N. W., increasing at mid- 

 night and " a chopping sea getting up," steering to the N. by E. through- 

 out. 



