1845.] Fourteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 887 



Remarks, Wednesday, Dec. 3rd s 1845. 



H. 



Courses. 



K. 



F. 



Winds, &c. 





1 



NNW. 



8 



4 



NE.toSE. 



Well. 



2 





8 



4 







3 





. 



8 



4 



# , 



. , 



4 





. 



8 



4 



. , 



Dry. 



5 





. 



8 



4 



East. 



, , 



6 





. 



8 



4 







7 





. 



8 



4 







8 





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8 



4 



. . 



Dry. 



9 





. 



8 



4 







10 





• 



8 

 8 



4 

 4 



ESE. 





12 





• 



8 



4 







a. m. Moderate, wind with a heavy 

 SE. swell. 



At 2, lat. by Canopus 10° 25' North. 

 At 2, ditto, Sirins, 10° 24' North. 

 Daylight thick hazy weather. At 

 , moderate weather. 



Captain Moresby remarks in a letter to me, that " during the first 

 part of the hurricane, the atmosphere felt very close and warm." 



Ship Frances. 



Captain Biden has furnished me with an extract from the log of the ship 

 Frances, from Colombo to Madras, which vessel was on the 29th No- 

 vember, in 6° 4' North, and on the 2nd December in 1 1° 39', but has no in- 

 tervening observations or latitude by account given. She was proba- 

 bly, Capt. Biden says, about sixty miles from the Ceylon shore. She 

 evidently ran up just before the storm reached that meridian, having had 

 strong SE. and Easterly gales on the 1st and 2nd. 



Ship Carnatic, bound to Bombay. From the Bombay Chamber of 



Commerce. 



This ship was standing in to sight Cape Comorin, and at noon on 

 the 1st December was in latitude 4° 25' North, longitude by chronometer 

 78° 43' East, her barometer 29.70, sympiesometer 29.50, and thermometer 

 84°, with a moderate breeze from the North, cloudy, light rain, and a 

 heavy head swell. By midnight the wind had veered to the Westward, 

 (I suppose about NW. ?) 



2nd December. — Daylight increasing North Westerly breeze, latitude at 

 noon 5° 21' North, longitude 79° 33' East, barometer 29.66, sympiesome- 

 ter 29.16, thermometer 81°. r. m. Fresh breeze from the Westward, and 

 unsettled weather with a confused sea. At 8 p. m. to midnight. The same 

 wind at SW. 



