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Higginsoris could not have been the same, for the Higginson being 

 bound to Bombay, must have been on the 27th, (unless she lost ground 

 between that and the 28th,) somewhere to the Eastward of her posi- 

 tion on the 28th, which would place her on, or not far from the me- 

 ridian of the Futtay Salam's storm, where she would first have had 

 the wind from N. E. East or S. E., being in its Northern half; whereas 

 she had it "from West to South," or was in its S. Eastern quadrant 

 like the Futtay Salam on the 26th ; and if on the 27th at Noon, the 

 Futtay Salam's hurricane be supposed to reach to the Lucy Wright's 

 position, and have been there violent enough to dismast her, (at a 

 distance of 180 miles from its centre,) which is very improbable, this 

 would a fortiori have given the Higginson an Easterly or E. S. 

 Easterly hurricane on the 2Jth; when it is apparent that she had fine 

 weather; for it was evidently not then even threatening enough to be 

 mentioned in her log. She was, as I before said, bound to Bombay, and 

 must therefore have been coming from some point between S. and N. W-, 

 and this would always have given her bad weather from some quar- 

 ter on the 27th, as would also any track we can suppose for the storm. 

 Hence it is clear, that the Futtay Salam's hurricane and the Higgin- 

 son's storms could not be the same ; as the Lucy Wright's and Higgin- 

 son's might have been so, the one being dismasted on the 27th, and the 

 other meeting a storm as she came from the Eastward on the 28th. 

 In the absence of further information then, I suppose that there 

 were here, as we have found before where the track of a storm crosses, 

 or makes a considerable angle with the prevailing Monsoon, two 

 storms.* Of these I take the Lucy Wright's and Higginson' s to have 

 been the smaller one, and the Futtay Salam's and Seaton's, which 

 we must now consider, to have been the greater and more direct one. 



The Seaton's storm it is clear from the shift of wind was a severe 

 hurricane travelling from the E. by S, or E. E. S. to the W. N. West- 

 ward. I have marked the Lat. and Long, at which it first struck her, 

 and that to which she might have drifted between, say 6 a. m. on 

 the 31st and 6 a. m. on the 1st with a N. N. Westerly gale, drifting 



* The probability of two storms is much increased, as far at least as mere dynamical 

 forces and interruptions go, by considering how many currents our storm must have 

 created in its passage over the Ghauts, and the interval of threatening weather only 

 along the coast under the line of the Ghauts, 



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