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as would appear by the fall of her Barometer. We do not know 

 how the Lucy Wright had the wind, so that we must take the 

 Higginson's datum as the nearest and most detailed, and her account, 

 with what we have already remarked of the limited extent of the 

 storm off Cochin with the Seaforth, which excludes the supposi- 

 tion of these storms being the same, may allow us to assume, for we 

 can do no more, that at 6 a. m. on the 28th, the centre of a storm 

 was, say 40 miles or less to the North of her, and that her Easterly 

 and N. Easterly drift with a Westerly and South- Westerly gale 

 brought the wind to South, which it might quickly do when on such 

 a small circle. 



We know only of the Lucy Wright, that she was dismasted the 

 day preceding, but in what part of the storm, or where she may have 

 drifted to by this time, 6 a. m. 28th, we are quite ignorant. I have 

 therefore not marked any circle for her on the 27th,* and though it 

 is certain that, as we shall presently see there were two storms, we do 

 not know their tracks hereabouts. 



But we now find by the Futtay Salam's log and track, that she had 

 been running to the N. by E. from about lat. 8° to lat. 12°, and between 

 68° and 69° E. till midnight of the 26th, when she evidently plunged 

 into the circle of a storm on its S. E. quadrant, as she had then a gale 

 from S. W. which increased to a hurricane from S. S. W., South, and 

 S. East, moderating again a little by midnight of the 27th-28th ; so 

 that she may be taken, from midnight of the 26th to midnight of the 

 2/th, or for 24 hours, to have been drifting, and pretty close to the 

 centre, across the S. E. quadrant of a storm, of which the centre was 

 of course brought successively to the N. W., West, and S. W. of her, as 

 it progressed and the vessel drifted. 



Now if we consider this with the chart and log before us, we may 

 fairly allow, that at Noon of the 27th, the centre of the Futtay Salam's 

 hurricane bore from her about West, 30 or 40 miles, or was in lat. 

 12° 00' N. Ion. 68° 20' or 30° E., and I have from that point struck a 

 circle to shew it. This circle will also shew, that this storm and the 



* There is a considerable degree of uncertainty aboutall newspaper extracts relating to 

 storms, on account of the errors with which, even in the best printed ones, these accounts 

 always abound. Mr. Redfield I think alludes to the same circumstance, as much dimi- 

 nishing the value of newspaper notices. 



