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into smaller storms, and no doubt the various repulsions to which a 

 storm travelling at this high rate must have been subjected from the 

 effects of the high land may have contributed to this effect, and that the 

 Cuttack storm, like that of Midnapore in 1842, was a separate storm 

 from that of Pooree, and I have thus marked it — the reader will 

 judge if with sufficient warrant. The diminution of force may be 

 accounted for partly, I think, by the vicinity of the Balasore Hills to 

 Cuttack breaking up by their resistance the Northern half of it,* and 

 partly from the interference of the two storms as they approached the 

 land. The extreme suddenness of their approach, and severity of their 

 effects while they lasted, sufficiently account for the dreadful losses 

 to which I have alluded. It might also be made an additional 

 argument for the uses of, and attention to Simpiesometers and 

 Barometers. We have no traces of these storms inland to the 

 Southward or South Westward in the Goomsoor country, where are 

 situated the wild tribes of Khoonds, and to the Northward and North 

 Westward, where the country between Sumbulpore and Balasore is 

 almost as little known.t For these parts then our knowledge ends 

 hereabouts. 



The next trace we have of any storm inland is at Purulia, and here 

 again the question arises, if this was either the Cuttack or Pooree 

 storms, or an independent vortex. The distance from Cuttack to 

 Purulia is in a direct line, measured on the Post Office map 240 miles, 

 and the bearing NbE., and from Pooree 290 miles. The change of 

 wind took place at Pooree, as we have seen, at about 6 p. m. of the 2d, 

 and at Cuttack about 6 a. m. on the 3d. The abatement of the 

 Purulia storm took place also in the afternoon at Purulia, so that as 

 far as we can ascertain from this Memorandum, we may take the 

 centre of the storm, which if it was a rotatory one, passed to the 

 Eastward of the station, to have been nearest the station at 10 a. m. 

 on the 3rd. Now from 6 p. m. of the 2nd to 10 a. m. of the 3rd, is 

 16 hours of time between Pooree and Purulia, and from 6 a. m. of the 



* See Mr. Bond's report from Balasore. 



t The European reader unacquainted with India, will be surprised to hear this of 

 districts only 2U0 and 300 miles from the metropolis of British India; but it is a fact 

 that the very names of some of the Khoond tribes in Goomsoor have only become known 

 to us since the war of 1836 ! and that there are still thereabouts sects and tribes of 

 which we know indeed the names, but nothing more ! 



