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knowledge of Indian hurricanes, they give, as every successive investiga- 

 tion seems to give, a new lesson to the seaman which he has only to 

 profit by. 



The regularity with which, in spite of the mountains of Ceylon and of 

 Southern India, they seem to move on, in about the average track is 

 also remarkable. 



Postscript. — While this paper is going through the press, I obtain the log of the 

 Barque Victoria, Captain Hyde, which ship on her voyage from Calcutta to Bom- 

 bay, had from 11 P. M. of the 2nd, and morning of the 3rd December, a heavy gale 

 from the North to N W. and SW., but which abated by 9 a. m. At 6 p. m. of the 2nd 

 Quilon Flag-Staff bore N^W.; and at noon on the 3rd, the latitude was 8° 31' North, 

 by observation. This ship was therefore a little to the north of the Charles Forbes' 

 position, and proves our estimation of that storm as marked by the outer arrow to be 

 correct. — H. P. 



