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



Ship John Brown, R. Brown, Commander. From the Bombay 

 Chamber of Commerce. 



From the log of this vessel, of which the track will be seen on the 

 chart, it appears that on the 3rd and 4th December, she was running in 

 to the ENE. ; towards, and in the passage between, the head of the Mal- 

 dives and the Southern Laccadives, and that on the 4th at noon when 

 with the Charles Forbes, the weather had quite moderated to fine, the 

 John Brown was within a few miles on the same parallel of latitude 

 as the Forbes on the 3rd, but about 170 miles West of her position, 

 in longitude 73° 29' East with steady breezes and gloomy weather, the 

 wind about SW. and a heavy sea, which they supposed to be caused by 

 a current setting to the ENE. Her barometer (probably too low) 

 was at 28-80 ; the thermometer 87°. 



Abridged Log of the Ship Mary Anne, Captain Allen, from London to 

 Bombay. Reduced to civil time. From the Bombay Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



At Noon 5th December, 1845. — Increasing breezes NNW. with a 

 heavy head sea: Latitude 8° 7' North: Longitude 71° 15° East: Baro- 

 meter 29*45 : Sympiesometer 29*30 : Thermometer S3J°. — Towards mid- 

 night decreasing and cloudy. 



Qth. — a. m. WSW., increasing to noon, when Latitude 9° 54' North: 

 Longitude 71° 16' East: Barometer 29*40: Sympiesometer 29 26: Ther- 

 mometer 82°: heavy confused sea from the Northward. — p. m. Wind 

 West. — At 7, Southerly, rapid scud, much lightning and sea. — At 5 p. m, 

 barometer fell to 29*35, and sympiesometer to 26*24. 



7th.-— Noon fine weather: Latitude 12° 54' North: Longitude 11° 0' 

 East: Barometer 29 50: Sympiesometer 29*36: Thermometer 83f°. After 

 which fine weather and calms. 



Abstract of the Log of the Ship Rajasthan, Captain Stewart, from 

 London bound to Bombay. Reduced to civil time. From the Bombay 

 Chamber of Commerce. 



On the 4th December, 1845. — Rajasthan was at noon in Latitude 9° 55' 

 North : Longitude 69° 0, East : Barometer 29*85 : Sympiesometer 29*42 : 

 Thermometer 83° 3'. — a. m. Freshening to steady; fresh wind from the 



