888 Fourteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 168. 



At noon on the 3d.— Latitude 6° 46' North, longitude 78° 29' East, 

 barometer 29.80, sympiesometer 29.20, thermometer 84°. 



Ship Bolton, Capt. T. Davidson. From the Bombay Chamber of 



Commerce. 



This ship was also like the Carnatic, standing in to sight Cape Comorin, 

 and the abstract from her log is given in a tabular form, which I print be- 

 low. It appears that like the Carnatic, she just felt the South-western 

 quadrant of the storm, which was wrecking the Florist at Tuticoreen in 

 its passage over the Peninsula. 



Extract from the Log of the Ship Bolton. 





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C Fresh winds and cloudy. 

 < Ship 43 miles West of ac- 

 C count. 



1st Dec. 



4 40 N. 



77 37 E. 



29.90 



83 



NNE. 



























r First part light airs, lat- 



2nd „ 



5 50 



77 24 



29.80 



84 



W.toNW. 



lter part heavy squalls of 

 "^wind and rain, weather 

 £very unsettled. 

 k First severe squalls 



3rd „ 



7 17 



77 10 



29.60 



83 



W. to N. 



3 with torrents of rain, lat- 



/ ter part calm. 



C Found the current to 















m „ 



7 8 



77 42 



29.80 



82 



Calms. 



< have set these last 24 

 ( hours S. 50° E., 42 miles. 



Ceylon and the Southern part of the Peninsula of India. 



We now take the data which relate to the passage of the storm over 

 Ceylon and the Southern extremity of India. These are mostly but 

 detached notes, but will enable us to trace the vortex pretty accurately ; 

 as to time at least, to the Malabar Coast. It will be recollected that 

 we had the log of the Hindoostan Steamer off the Eastern Coast of 

 Ceylon, steaming through the Eastern verge of the centre, a little after 

 midnight of the 1st and 2nd, being then about thirty miles from the 

 shore, and to the ESE. of Baticolo. 



Captain Biden, Master Attendant of Madras, says : — 



" The Master of the War Steamer Spiteful says, it blew hard at Trin- 

 comullee on the 1st, from East and SE. Several trees were blown 



