1843.] Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 789 



The following Memorandum is from my friend War. Peacock, Esq., 

 who was, at the time of which he writes, on the river in a Boat. 

 Being about 10 or 12 miles above the mouth of the Bhagruttee (about 

 latitude 32° 32' N. longitude) 88° 20' on the 5th October, I observed in 

 the evening the wind was from the Eastward gradually lulling as night 

 came on. After sunset a very heavy bank of clouds visible all along the 

 horizon, commencing a little East of North and running round East- 

 ward to nearly South. During the night of the 5th, the wind sprung 

 up again, but from the North East ; and it was blowing fresh from that 

 quarter all the forenoon of the 6th till about 12 or 1 o'clock, when 

 heavy squalls came up from the South-East, succeeding each other at 

 intervals of half an hour, and so on till between 3 and 4 p. m. when 

 the weather cleared a little ; but it still blew fresh from South East, 

 with an occasional shower till evening. I was by that time in a very 

 sheltered situation, and could not well feel the weather as I did in the 

 morning of the 6th, and during the middle of the day, all which 

 time I was knocking about in the open river, and exposed to the full 

 power of the storm. 



Wm. Peacock. 



The following note from Purulia, by Capt. Hannyngton, B. N. I. 

 is the only trace I have of any storm in the line between Cuttack 

 and Gya. 



Purulia, \\th April, 1843. 

 The fact is, that we had a brisk gale here for one day during the 

 first week of October, and pretty full memoranda of the Barometrical 

 changes were noted down by a friend who was then here, and who 

 instead of at once writing them in the memorandum book, committed 

 them to a scrap of paper, which has unfortunately been mislaid. I 

 have searched for it long and in vain. So far as my memory serves, 

 the gale began here on the night of Sunday the 2nd October, and blew 

 from North veering to West, in which quarter it moderated, and ceased 

 in the afternoon of the 3rd. S.eeing it was so short, and no notice 

 being taken of it by you, I supposed that it was of no consequence, and 

 therefore did not send a report. You will say that nothing of the 



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