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Cuttack it was 6 hours later, or a. m. of the 3rd that they had a lull 

 and the wind veering subsequently from N. and N. N. E. at mid- 

 night of the 2nd, to S. E. at 6 a. m. on the 3rd. 



The supposition then here is, that as 39 miles per hour is so very 

 high a rate of travelling, thi3 Cuttack storm was that of the 

 Eliza, of which the rate of travelling would then be reduced to 18.3 

 miles per hour, the distance from the place of the centre of the Eliza's 

 storm on the 2nd to Cuttack being 220 miles, and the time from Noon 

 2nd to a. m. 3rd, say 12 hours. 



But if we look at the Charts, we shall see that, had it been the case 

 that this Cuttack storm was the same hurricane, it must have 

 passed within a short distance of the Emerald Isle, (50 miles, if 

 we have rightly estimated her position,) and still closer to the Hali- 

 fax Packet, and that it must have been, taking it to have moved 

 through equal spaces in equal times, nearest to the Emerald Isle, at 

 about 7 p. m. of the 2nd, when she should consequently have had the 

 hurricane in full force. This, however, is not the case, for by her log it 

 is plain, that the hardest part of the gale was over by 6 p. m., when the 

 wind had veered to South; whereas on our supposition, it would have 

 been a furious hurricane at S. E., and the same, with a little variation 

 as to time holds good for the Halifax Packet's storm. These vessels' logs 

 then will not admit of our considering the Cuttack storm as the principal, 

 or the only one, and there is moreover another obstacle to our so doing; 

 viz. that while the Pooree storm, which in fury is described by Dr. 

 Cumberland, who saw both, as one-eighth more violent than that of 

 1840,* seems, to use a familiar word, "naturally" that of the Eliza; 

 that of Cuttack was but a smart gale blowing down a few trees. As 

 to the diameters of these storms, Mr. Redfield remarks, that his storm 

 track No. VIII, of 1835, was probably not more than 100 miles in 

 diameter, and the Coringa hurricane of 1839 certainly contracted to 

 about 150 miles in diameter, while it increased in fury. It will then 

 be asked, " As what we are to consider this Cuttack storm ?" I should 

 say decidedly, that as shewn in my Seventh Memoir, it is another of 

 those cases in which a violent hurricane coming up from seaward, with 

 a strong monsoon blowing nearly at right angles to its trackt divides 



* See Third Memoir, Vol. ix p. 1021 and 102*2, Journal of the Asiatic Society, 

 f Which we see by. the logs of the Essex and Lion was the case. 



