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or Cananore storm it will be remembered,) and then gradually made 

 sail with the returning fine weather. 



We can by no means positively connect these storms with those of 

 the coast, though there is nothing impossible in their being connected, 

 for taking the Monarch's to have been the Cananore storm, it must have 

 travelled about 380 miles, or sixteen miles an hour, in the twenty-four 

 hours between the 3rd and 4th, a rate at which no doubt our storms 

 frequently do travel, and its rapid approach to the ship shews that it 

 really was moving fast. It did not quit her so soon as it might be ex- 

 pected it would do, because she was for a time apparently blown round 

 the circle, and thus drifting with the storm. 



The Rajasthan's storm may be supposed to have been that of the 

 Charles Forbes, without assuming any high rate of motion, for, as we 

 have shewn, that vortex was just clearing, or clear of, the land by noon 

 on the 3rd, when it would require only to travel about 300 miles in two 

 days, or 150 miles per day, or a little more than six miles per hour to 

 reach the Rajasthan. 



Conclusion. 



We are much struck when considering these remarkable small 

 storms with their close analogy to what we see of water- spouts at 

 sea, and with dust-whirlwinds on shore, which so frequently seem to 

 move on in pairs or threes along the same paths : and yet withal, 

 diminutive as we may comparatively term them, they seem to have 

 been, for the Myaram Dyaram, Caledonia, Hindoostan, and the unfortu- 

 nate station of Baticolo on the East side of the Peninsula, as well as 

 with the Monarch, and nearly with the Rajasthan, of true hurricane, 

 or rather considering them as to size, Tornado violence. They thus 

 become, from the short warning which they afford, even more danger- 

 ous than storms of greater extent, which allow of twelve to twenty- 

 four hours for preparation ; and while they add a new page* to our 



* Though not wholly an unexpected one. See X. Memoir. The Coringa Packet's 

 and H. M. S. Centurion's storms off Ceylon; Journal Asiatic Society, Vol. XIII 

 p. 113. 



