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the Fyzulbarrys, detailed in my Eleventh Memoir, which had a track 

 to the NNW., while these of our present Memoir have very distinctly 

 one to the WNW. It will be remarked, that these storms appear to take 

 their rise in about the same latitude North, as those in the Storm tract, to 

 which I have elsewhere* alluded, do on the South side of the Equator, 

 and about on the same meridian, but our information is, as yet, too scanty 

 to allow us to draw any inference from this coincidence. A matter 

 of more present importance, is, that it is a track which lies much in 

 the way of our Steamers. It is partly on this account, and partly 

 that I was desirous of recognising by early publication, the kind efforts 

 of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, which has transmitted to me, 

 through the zealous labours of its Secretary, Mr. Scott, the documents 

 from the West of Cape Comorin : while to Capt. Biden I as usual owe 

 most of those on the East, that I have deferred other labours in hand to 

 investigate it. I must not forget to acknowledge here also the attention 

 of Capt. Twynham, Agent for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi- 

 gation Company ; Capt. Moresby of their Steamer, the Hindoostan ; 

 Major General Cullen, Resident at Cochin ; and Mr. Higgs, Master At- 

 tendant of H. M's. Naval Yard, Trincomallee, for their careful forward- 

 ing of all the information they could collect. We have also another 

 novelty in this storm, which is, that of a fine, well appointed Steamer, 

 (the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company's Steamer Hindoos- 

 tan,) steaming through the Western verge of the Vortex, / and passing the 

 calm centre with all the changes of the wind, which she should have, 

 and with the hurricane so violent as to blow away her boats, &c. I am 

 much indebted to Capt. Moresby for his log observations and baro- 

 metrical notes, which are of very great interest ; for in the execution of 

 his duty, he has also, like Capt. Finck of the Charles Heddle, performed 

 a very valuable experiment for our new Science. 



I have as usual given the authorities as closely abridged as possible, 

 and finally omitting, for brevity's sake, the comparative table, the va- 

 rious considerations from which the track of the storm has been laid 

 down. The documents begin with the log of the ship Caledonia, which 

 had the storm farthest to the Eastward. 



* Horn Book of Storms, p. 7, 2nd Edition. 



