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it was moderating from SE. and SSW. ; so that we may take it at this 

 time to have been clear of the coast, and assuming that it extended from 

 the Forbes' position at midnight, to near Cananore, it was now a 

 storm of 240 miles in diameter ; but this could not be the case, for 

 whatever the Cananore gale* was owing to the wind was S. Westerly, 

 at daylight on the 3rd with the Charles Forbes, and N. Easterly at Co- 

 chin, and had left the Faize Rubahny ; shewing that this vortex was of 

 small extent, and that its centre lay between the Forbes and Cochin. 

 I shall afterwards shew that the Cananore storm was probably that of 

 the Juliana, Frances, and M or ley. 



The logs of the ships John Brown and Mary Anne, which were to 

 the Westward of, and between the Maldives and Laccadives, give us no 

 traces of the Charles Forbes' storm on the 4th and 5th, except in a 

 heavy swell felt by the John Brown ; so that it may have broken up or 

 exhausted itself in the tract between the coast and these Islands, or 

 have travelled on to the positions of the Rajasthan and Monarch, on the 

 5th and 6th, which we shall afterwards consider. 



We must now return to the Bay of Bengal again, to take up the storm 

 experienced by the Juliana, Morley, Myaram Dyaram, and Frances, as 

 having precedence in order of time. 



We noted p. 905 that the Alibi in running up across the Caledonia's 

 track, and nearly due North, between the meridians of 89 and 90°, expe- 

 rienced no bad weather, though some traces of the stormy action might 

 be found in her log. It would appear that she had on the 29th in 

 latitude 9° 8' North, heavy squalls and sea from EbN. and ENE. 

 to South, and again to NE. after midnight, but nothing that could be 

 called a severe gale, though her barometer was low, and she saw that 

 the weather was threatening to the Westward on the 30th, when she 

 was in about 1 2° North. 



The Juliana clearly ran into a circular storm, having the winds first 

 varying from NNW. to West, then to SW. and moderating for a time 

 (which so frequently occurs) towards noon on the 28th, when she 

 was always running on to the NW. She crossed the track of her storm 

 behind or to the Eastward of its centre, and had a gale from the NE. 

 obliging her to lie to, at 11 a. m. on the 29th. 



* The account it will be noted is a very loose one. 



