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centre of this storm for this day close to the Southward of the Myaram 

 Dyaram, and have just included in it the position of the Frances, which 

 ship was evidently on the Southern and S. Eastern verge of a storm, and 

 as far as we can judge by her meagre note, ran up on its Eastern side. It 

 will be noted also that her position on this day with a Westerly and 

 S. Westerly gale reduces greatly the Storm Circle of the Caledonia, prov- 

 ing that it could not even have been of 100 miles in diameter.* The 

 fact of two small vortices so nearly parallel to each other is very 

 remarkable, but the evidence for it appears to me, on this day espe- 

 cially, to be unquestionable, and if the Myaram Dyaram' s storm com- 

 menced on the 28th, the two storms may have been also both formed on 

 that date. 



We have no farther trace of this storm after the 30th, and thus are 

 uncertain if it broke up or amalgamated with the Caledonia's, Hindoo- 

 stan's, and Ceylon storm, or if it continued its track farther as a small in- 

 dependent storm to the Coromandel coast, and crossing the Peninsula, 

 forced its way through the Palgatcherry Pass, and produced the Cana- 

 nore, Rajasthan's, or Monarch's storms in the Arabian sea ? 



We can only intimate, or consider that this might be possible, and the 

 heavy storm at Ootacamund, which is twenty- seven miles North of the 

 Palgatcherry Pass, and nearly three degrees North of the centre of the 

 storm we have traced near Cape Comorin, lends some countenance 

 to this view; for a small storm might easily have landed about 

 Porto Novo, between Pondicherry and Point Calymere without any 

 reports or accounts of it being taken or obtained. The threatening 

 weather seen to the SE. from Madras might have been the outskirts of it. 



We now return to the Arabian Sea. I have shown at p. 911 that the 

 Charles Forbes' storm may have been broken up amongst the Lacca- 

 dives, or it may have joined its force to that of the Cananore storm, 

 and both together have formed that which the Rajasthan experienced 

 from the 4th to the 6th. We have seen that at noon the Charles 



in distress, having no one to navigate her on board , and that she assisted her with an Officer 

 and two Lascars. On her arrival at Point de Galle, two days after the Myaram Dyaram, 

 it was found that she had fallen astern, and to the Northward of the Myaram, and 

 though she felt the sea, had no violent winds. Her position being quite uncertain, we 

 can only notice this. 



* The Caledonia might even on this day have been further to the Northward, as she 

 found on the 2nd that she was 50' North of account. 



