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



I have printed the abridgment of these extracts, indeed, almost to 

 shew what meagre and disappointing documents we sometimes obtain.* 

 We cannot from such data affirm that the Fyzulbarry'sand Candahar's 

 storms were the same, and indeed the great size of this circle is entirely 

 I think against the probability that they were, for it would be if com- 

 pleted 600 miles in diameter, and we shall find on the 30th and 1st 

 December that the storm could not have been the same, and we thus 

 obtain distinct evidence of three separate storms at the same time ; two 

 in the Northern and one in the Southern Hemisphere. 



30th November. — We have first the Fyzulbarry running to the 

 S. S. E. and S. E. and evidently towards the centre of the storm, 

 which does not appear to have been an entirely calm one or at least 

 the ship did not get into it. At 7 p. m « she had the Westerly sea, 

 " rolling up and overpowering the Easterly one/' and the S. W. and 

 Southerly gale coming up. She had an observation, though indiffer- 

 ent on this-day, so that we may take her position as within a little 

 to be that of the centre of the storm, and projecting it would give to 

 Candahar a N. Easterly gale at 250 miles distance from the centre ; 

 and therefore a moderate, instead of a furious N. Westerly one which she 

 had,) shewing that her storm as before remarked, was certainly a 

 different one from that of the Fyzulbarry. I have then placed the 

 centre of the Fyzulbarry's storm for this day in Lat. 7° 30' N. Long. 87° 

 30'. E. The Mary Imrie in 12°20' North, though we have not her longi- 

 tude this day, was doubtless on the N. W. quadrant of the Candahar's 

 storm, and at Madras the high surf and strong current to the Northward 

 are indications of the approaching tempest there. The Vernon we find 

 went to sea, on this day from Madras roads, with a fresh N. N. E. gale at 

 7 p. m. The Bittern and Carena's logs give us no information for want 

 of Long, but the Winifred's is interesting as showing that though the 



* And, as it has often struck me, to remark on the absurd practice of keeping a 

 log book without entering the Longitude. It is quite possible that a case might 

 arise in which, at least ignorance of his position, if not of wilful destruction of his 

 vessel might be alledged, if not proved, in a court of law against the master of a 

 vessel through this omission ; and his insurance thereby become vitiated in case of 

 an accident. The private " Chronometer book" of a Captain would barely be called 

 a legitimate document when the book which should contain the vessel's place at noon 

 is blank. 



