1843] Law of Storms in India. 393 



The foregoing views it will be seen, by those who have followed 

 the series of these memoirs, are exactly analogous to those advanced 

 in my first memoir, where I have given a chart illustrative of the 

 deflection of the S. W. Monsoon, by the mountains on the coast 

 of Arracan, from Cape Negrais Northwards, by the Cachar and 

 Bootan ranges, till, by those of the Himalaya, the S. W. Monsoon 

 for a part of its duration is converted into a stream of Easterly winds. 

 There can also be little doubt, that as Capt. Newbold remarks, the 

 winds and hurricanes rarely extend to any great perpendicular height, 

 and are thus constantly subjected to all the deflections and interrup- 

 tions which hill and mountain ranges occasion. 



We have now, having I think, shewn satisfactorily that the storm 

 was identically the same with that of Madras (?) to follow it in its 

 course in the Arabian Sea ; and our next document is, (not neglect- 

 ing to note the fall of the Barometer at Bombay, from the 25th to 

 the 29th as we proceed,) the notice of the dismasting of the Lucy 

 Wright. 



This vessel was on the 27th, when the height of the storm occurred 

 with her, in lat. 13° 2' N. long. 71° 39' E. This spot is distant 

 340 miles from that at which we have placed (by estimation only) the 

 centre of the storm on the 25th at Noon at the head of the Paulghaut- 

 cherry Pass, and we know that while it was raging at sea with the 

 Seaforth ten hours later, it was not felt, though there were clear 

 indications of it, to the experienced native craft and fishermen, and 

 these would doubtless have been much more distinct with the assist- 

 ance of a Barometer and Sympiesometer, at Tellicherry and Mount 

 Dilly, 100 miles to the North of the Seaforth's position. Our reports 

 from Mahe and Karical also confirm this ; but again at Mangalore we 

 find on the 25th, strong gusts of wind from the N. W., as if there was 

 then a commencement of a storm hereabouts, the original one having 

 separated into two by the various obstacles it met with. It is, however, 

 just possible, that these N. W. gusts were nothing but parts of the 

 storm pouring over the Western Ghauts. The Higginson, 75 miles 

 West of the Lucy Wright, had a heavy gale for 6 hours from West 

 to South on the 28th, and must have been therefore in the S. E. 

 quadrant of it ; the centre being thus to the N. W. of her, and having 

 passed nearest to her, and to the Northward, at 6 a. m. of the 28th, 



