1845.] Eleventh Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 69 



as compared with the storms we have been accustomed to consider. 



We find it moving only, Miles. 



From the 26th to the 27th Nov. 60 



27th „ 28th „ 32 



28th „ 29th „ 135 



29th „ 30th „ 47 



30th „ 1st Dec. 57 



Or in five days, 331 



Giving an average of per Day, . . 66~> 



Or per hour not more than 2| 



and this also on a singularly curved track * This slow motion of the 

 storms here, if future researches should show it to be usual, will be a 

 new and curious fact, and will explain, not the frequency of their oc- 

 currence hereabouts, but the frequency of their being met with in the 

 track of the outward-bound ships and on the verge of the trade.t 



With respect to the track itself; we have, I think clearly established 

 that it must first have moved up from the S. E. to the N. West- 

 ward and then curved away to the S. W. The exact position of the ships, 

 is of course liable to great errors after three, four, or five days of bad 

 weather or hurricane ; but still these errors are reducible to moderate 

 limits, and when we have ships on both sides of the storm, or ships on 

 one side and others at or close to the centres, we are very sure that our po- 

 sitions for these points from day to day cannot be very far wrong ; 

 and certainly not far enough to invalidate our general conclusion as 

 to the extent of the space passed over by the storm in these five days. J 



There are some other matters worthy of note which I take here 



* The true track was in all probality a sharp curve passing near the different 

 points. 



f Col. Reid remarks p. 241 that the Albion's storm was apparently almost sta- 

 tionary or forming. 



X See postcript for an extraordinary confirmation of the truth of our work, and of 

 these remarks, which were written months before the intelligence there given reached 

 me. 



