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



or indeed in any part of the world ; the highest rate supposed being I 

 think 24 miles per hour in the Eastern seas, which I have inferred 

 (6th Memoir, p. 699, vol. xi. of Journal of the Asiatic Society,) may 

 have been the rate of the Magicienne and St. Paul's hurricane in the 

 China sea, and 30 miles per hour assigned by Mr. Redfield, as that of 

 the Atlantic storm delineated as Track No. VIII, in his Storm chart of 

 1835. Both these are much below this rate of 39 miles per hour, but 

 we have good proof here, that it did occur, for the time must be cor- 

 rect, and the Eliza's position cannot be very far wrong, as to distance 

 from Pooree. 



Assuming then this rate for the present as one tolerably well ascer- 

 tained, the reader will notice, that I have marked on the chart a 

 track parallel to the former one, which starting from the supposed 

 place of the centre of the storm at midnight 1st to 2d October, gives 

 another centre at Noon of the 2d, and terminates at Cuttack. This 

 marks the supposed place of the centre of the Halifax Packet and 

 Emerald Isle's storm, which cannot, I take it, have been the same 

 as that of the Eliza. 



Before going into the examination of this question, however, I would 

 request attention to the log and track of the Tenasserim Steamer. 



This vessel was steering up from the S. Westward, passing Cape 

 Negrais at about 120 miles to the Westward, and we find that on the 

 29th, she had the winds squally and variable from W. N. W. to N. 

 W., and even North, when in about the latitude of the Cape, and 

 these N. W. breezes with thick cloudy weather and a heavy cross 

 sea continued till Noon on the 30th, as if she was skirting the S. 

 Western quadrant of a storm forming between her and the Coast of 

 Arracan, a supposition strengthened by the fact, that at Kyook 

 Phyoo, which is only 190 miles to the N. E. of her track on these days, 

 the winds were at S. E. as they ought to be if a circular motion 

 existed or was forming. The weather, however, which was fine at 

 Kyook Phyoo, was not decidedly a gale with the Tenasserim till the 

 30th, so we cannot on such slender grounds say, that any vortex 

 really was formed ; but if there was so, and if it had remained nearly 

 stationary for the 29th and 30th, the winds and weather experienced 

 by this vessel were such as it would produce. Is this really an in- 

 stance of the stationary formation of a storm ? 



