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first to the South Westward and then back to the Northward by her 

 drift and the storm currents ; being so near the centre as to have the 

 wind veering from E. N. E. to S. E. blowing a hurricane at midnight 

 when H. M. S. Jumna was also in the adjacent quadrant running out 

 of the circle, with her foremast only standing since lOh. 45' p. m. 

 From the direction of the wind — and taking also into account the little 

 attention which can be paid to a merchantman's Log on the approach 

 of bad weather, so that it is very often undermarked, it would seem 

 that the Braemar must have been much farther to the Southward than 

 her Lat. and Long, by D. R. place her, but I have not thought it right 

 to alter her position on a mere probability. There can be no doubt 

 that she was close on the Southern and S. Western quadrants of the 

 centre both from the rapid veering of the wind and its extreme violence, 

 obliging her at 3 a. m. of the 24th to cut away her mainmast. 



From the Log of the Mary Stoddart, there is nothing to be gleaned 

 except that she had also a Cyclone thereabouts* travelling to the 

 South Eastward. The notice of the Ormelie may relate either to a 

 heavy Westerly monsoon gale or to the Northern quadrants of the 

 Mary Stoddart'' s Cyclone. 



As the phsenomenon of the vibrating track of the Jumna's Cyclone 

 as marked on the chart is of much importance in our science if we 

 allow that it really took place as I have endeavoured to shew, I have 

 thought it right to print also the Log at full length ; or rather a Log 

 compounded of the three separate ones in my possession by filling 

 up in Lieut. Rodney's Log of the weather, Bar. and Ther. the distances. 

 I have no Log enabling me to give the run on the 22nd, or afternoon 

 of the 24 th, but this is immaterial. 



I have noted carefully where discrepancies occur, but fortunately in 

 all the main points as regards the veerings of the wind they all agree, 

 and it is this alone which is of interest to this part of the investigation. 

 The remarks of the Log I have condensed with the abridgement in 

 Part II. 



* For, to add to our perplexities with these scant notices, some Captains give the 

 Latitude and Longitude of their position when they consider the hurricane to have 

 begun with them, and others their position when it is at its utmost fury ; so that a 

 hurricane in such a position means at either of the above times ! and the two 

 positions may be at any distance apart. 



