784 Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 141. 



vessels were lost north of Point Palmyras; but to the southward of 

 the Point numbers were driven ashore and foundered, and many 

 lives lost. A range of hills (the Neelgherries,) stretches down from 

 the northward in a line with Chooramoon, which place lies S. S. W. 

 of Balasore, distant twenty miles. On the N. E. side of this range of 

 hills the winds were weak, (a top gallant breeze only,) whilst it in- 

 creased on the S. W. side of Chooramoon, and onwards to Pooree and 

 the Chilkah Lake, to a complete hurricane, for the coast was strewed 

 with wrecks, besides several ships being completely dismantled, and 

 some having foundered. 



Oct. 1842. 



Ther. 



Bar. 



Bar. 



Bar. 



Remarks. 





2 P. M. 



9 A. M. 



3 P. M. 



5 P. M. 





1st October, 



83 



29.80 



29.71 



29.67 



N. W. to N. E. rain. 



2nd ditto, . . 



80 



29.71 



29.55 



29.50 



J Top gallant breeze N.E., 

 ( squally rain. 



3rd ditto, . . 



82 



2962 



29.65 



29.64 



S. E. puffy rain, squallydo. 



4th ditto, .. 



83 



29.74 



29.70 



29.70 



S. E. ditto ditto. 



5th ditto, . . 



84 



29.68 



2970 



29.69 



S. E. ditto rain. 



6th ditto, . . 



85 



29.80 



29.68 



29.65 



S. E. to S. W. rain slight. 



7th ditto, . . 



85 



29.80 



29.80 



29.77 



J S. W. fairer and variable 

 \ N. W. and N. E. 



The logs of the Pilot and Light Vessels will be found included in 

 the Tabular statement. The following is the only document which I 

 have of the state of the weather at Calcutta, which is followed by 

 such reports from inland stations as have reached me. 



