1850.] Nineteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms. 367 



" From the 18th March, 1848, the day on which the Hardwicke left the Sand 

 Heads, until the 19th April, we had hot sultry calm weather, but upon the 22d 

 April, 1848, in Lat. 12° South ; Long. 83° East ; we had a fearful hurricane, 

 which lasted 3 days. It blew from the S. E. and, under Providence, I consider 

 that Mr. Piddington's instructions saved us from being foundered. The Captain, 

 Lewis Browne, had been studying his book a whole month before the hurricane 

 commenced, so that, when it did come, he was prepared, and being in the 

 proper spot he lay]to, and so the storm passed us. I have been to sea pretty 

 often, but I never saw anything so awful as the sea during the three days that 

 we lay to. I forgot to get the extract from the Log; but get it you must, as it 

 will be a good link in the chain of this invaluable branch of knowledge." 



In a letter from Capt. Faucon, American Brig Frolic } he mentions 

 that — 



The Ormelie of Glasgow, from Calcutta to Liverpool, reports, that on Sunday 

 last, April 23rd, 1848, he was in 8° S. ; and 89° East ; had a heavy gale from 

 the Westward ; lost top gallant masts, jibboom, &c and sprung his bowsprit. 



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