1843.] Law of Storms in India. 387 



On the 23rd, the Waterloo had fine weather, having stood to the N. 

 W., and the wind at noon South and S. Easterly, being altogether 

 out of the reach of the storm ; another proof also, that her gale of the 

 preceding day was part of a rotatory, and not a monsoon gale. 



The Lady Feversham, which is the next ship to the Waterloo, 

 was at midnight on the 22d-23rd about 220 miles to the S. W. 

 by W. of her, and about on the latitude of the track of the storm ; 

 she had the wind increasing so rapidly from the North and N. by W. 

 from noon to that time, that at 11 p. m. 22nd, it was blowing a gale, 

 and at 1-30 a. m. of 23rd, a complete hurricane, so that she was just 

 enveloped in the hurricane when it had entirely left the Waterloo. 

 At 1-45 a. m. of the 23rd she was dismasted, and at 2-45, the calm 

 centre reached her. At 3-30, the hurricane is stated to be with her at its 

 greatest force; her Barometer being at 28.30, from which time it 

 moderated, till at noon it is called a strong wind at E. S. E. 



The Ann Metcalfe is the next vessel, and with her it is not 

 called a hurricane till 8 a. m., or about 8 hours later than with 

 the Lady Feversham : and with the Metcalfe the calm took place 

 at noon, giving thus pretty nearly the centre for noon that day, which 

 also agrees with the log of the London, which had " a strong gale" 

 at N. N. E. at this time, and generally with those of the Favorite, 

 Sarah, and Stalkart. 



These data are all good for the centre of the storm for the 23rd 

 in about lat. 12° N. long. 85° 30' E. which is also given (evidently 

 in such weather an estimated one) as the position of the Ann Metcalfe 

 at noon. 



There are, in adopting it as the centre, two slight discrepancies to 

 be noticed ; the first, that though it is only 45 miles to the Westward 

 of the Feversham 's position, that vessel at noon had the weather mo- 

 derating fast, and wind from E. S. E. ; the second, that the direction of 

 the wind with the Favorite (N. N. E.) if her position is right, would 

 place the centre further to the Southward, and the last, that though al- 

 most fine with the Feversham, it was beginning to be felt as a gale 

 by the Sarah, which was at 145 miles of distance from this centre. 



We cannot, however, take upon ourselves to alter the estimate of a 

 vessel's position, though the storm wave and storm currents must have 

 carried some of the vessels much beyond or within their estimated 



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