58 Eleventh Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 157. 



Wind by the Log. Winds by their posi- 

 tions on the chart. 



Edmonstone, N. N. W N. N. W. 



Flowers of Ugie, N. E N. E. 



Futile Rozack, N. E N. E. 



Active,* about East E. N. E. 



Baboo, N. W N. b. W. 



Wellington, E. S. E. E. f S. 



The Ainslie and John Fleming's positions are both utterly uncer- 

 tain on this day, though both ships were doubtless from the violence 

 and veerings of the wind with them, close to the centre; no sort of 

 account indeed could well be kept in these ships as from stress of wea- 

 ther, they were obliged to steer various courses so as to ease the vessel 

 as much as possible, on account of their cooley passengers. The Ward 

 from the inperfect newspaper account appears, though a degree or 

 more to the North of the Wellington, to have had it at S. W. commenc- 

 ing on this day, though her position is quite uncertain,t as the Lat. and 

 Long, given, as in the case of the Active, seem to have been intended 

 to express the spot where they had the heaviest weather and not the 

 ship's place. 



The log of the Sophia offers a considerable anomaly. By the posi- 

 tion of our centre from which she is at 180 miles distance, which 

 is much less than the distance of the Wellington, and about the 

 distance of the Futtle Rozack and Ugie from it, she should have the 

 wind at S. W. while she has it at North W. by her log ! I am unable 

 at present to reconcile this. It may be an error in copying, or it may be 

 that she met with another and a new storm thrown off in advance of 

 the principal one, or finally she may have been carried much further to 

 the Eastward than she supposed, and thus have been really on the N. 

 Eastern quadrant as her wind would place her. I leave it therefore 

 for the present. 



* This vessel's place is also uncertain, for the Lat. and Long, given in the news- 

 paper appear to be that of the ship when the storm was at its height, rather than 

 that of a given date. 



t The position is wholly wrong. The Ward spoke the Sophia on the 26th in 6& 

 S. and therefore could not be on the 30th in 12. 30, So, both having Southerly 

 winds. She was probably on this day somewhere between the Sophia's and Baboo's 

 tracks which would give her the S. Westerly gale mentioned. 



