1843.] Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, 781 



Report of the Ship Emerald Isle, Capt. J. Scales. From the Marine 



Board. 



On the 1st instant whilst at anchor in the Eastern Channel, the wea- 

 ther became unsettled with the wind at East, the squalls rising about 

 S. E., but striking us mostly from about East. About 4 p. m. gale and 

 sea increasing, slipped and made sail to the southward. During the 

 night it blew fresh with an increasing sea. About 5 a. m. on the 2nd, 

 wind about E. S. E., gale increasing with such rapidity, that I was un- 

 able to shorten sail sufficiently quick, the weather beginning to assume 

 a most wild and threatening appearance. About 1 p. m. the wind and 

 sea had increased to that extent, and the ship so uneasy, I thought we 

 should have been swallowed. Thermometer was then 82° and Sym- 

 piesometer 28- *, varying not more than a couple of tenths, until about 

 6 p. m., when it gradually rose, and the breeze had sensibly abated. 

 The wind had then veered to South, but the hardest part was from the 

 S. East; it blew hard in squalls during the night with deluges of rain, 

 but by daylight had almost subsided. The Sympiesometer then 28.40, 

 which at Noon rose to 28.50. Thermometer 84°, the wind then 

 gradually drew round to the S. S. W., when the weather became clear 



and tranquil. 



J. Scales, 



Commanding Ship Emerald Isle. 



Abridged Log of H. C. Steamer Tenasserim from Singapore, bound 

 to Calcutta, reduced to civil time. 



28th September, 1842 — Noon, latitude 14° 22' N. longitude 93° 45' 

 E. Narcondam at lh. 30m. a. m. W. by N. (distance not stated). 

 Fine westerly breeze, p. m. to midnight, winds variable, N. N. W. to 

 W. 4 p. m. Preparis E. by N. | N. (no distance). 



29th September.— Fresh breezes N. W. by W. to W. N. W. No 

 observations at noon. p. m. the same weather, Lat. account 16° 6' N., 

 longitude 92° 15' E. 10 a. m. wind North, p. m. heavy squalls occa- 

 sionally from N. W. Midnight wind N. W. 



30^, September — a. m. strong breeze and thick cloudy weather, 

 with a heavy cross sea, set storm stay sails. No observations. Latitude 



* Captain S.'s Barometer was broken. 



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