810 Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. QNo. 141. 



tainly as we have seen a storm, and this apparently part of a rotatory 

 one, and possibly that of Pooree, if it travelled 19 miles an hour. We 

 have, as before said, no other intervening documents, so we are com- 

 pelled to suppose either that the Pooree storm was, as clearly shewn in 

 the case of the Calcutta storm of June,* lifted up by the ranges of hills, 

 and did not descend again till it reached Purulia and Gya ; or else it was 

 a new storm, perhaps generated about Purulia, and travelling North and 

 North-westerly. 1 have so marked it on the chart, but merely for the 

 sake of connection, and by no means as affirming what it was; for the 

 Purulia gale might have been quite an independent one. Beginning 

 then at Gya, it will be found, that this place bears about N. by W. 

 from Pooree, distance 390 miles. Now the centre of the Pooree strom 

 passed that place at 6 p. m. of the 2nd October, and the centre of the 

 Gya storm we may take to have passed that station at 6 a. m. on the 

 5th. From 6 p. m. of the 2nd to 6 a. m. of the 5th are 60 hours, 

 which for a distance of 390 miles, gives 6.5 miles an hour, while the 

 rate of the Pooree storm we find to have been 36 miles per hour at 

 sea, and 19 miles on shore, which is a second retardation of rate so 

 far beyond what we have hitherto seen, that it is much in favour of its 

 being an independent storm. The track from Pooree to Gya it may 

 be remarked, is however, analogous to those of the Calcutta storms of 

 June 1842. Leaving out the strong S. Easterly breeze experienced 

 by Mr. Peacock on the Bhagiretty, as, at most, a distant effect of some 

 of these storms, we may commence on the 5th October, where we 



find that 



From 6 a. m. gale from S. E., fu- 

 At Gya, there was, -Z rious at midnight, and lasting till 8 



the 6th. 



I From 

 < rious at 

 I a. m. on 



. p J Falling Barometer, rain and increas- 



'•' " \ing gale from the East till midnight. 



At Pussewa, latitude 25° ( Barometer sunk 0.25 from the 3rd 

 41', longitude 83°03' distant I instant, p. m. high wind East and N. 

 about 168' N. W. by W. of \ E. increasing to gale, with violent gusts 

 Gya ( at North by day liglft of 6th. 



SBy 8 p. m. on 4th, strong gusts and 

 showers had increased to a gale East 

 and E. N. E. At 8 a. m. 5th very 

 strong, moderating and increasing again 

 at midnight to a strong gale. 



* See Seventh Memoir, Jour. As. Soc. Vol. xi, p. 1089. 



