1849.] Eighteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms. 833 



Chittagong. 



A letter from Chittagong published in the Calcutta Englishman of 

 the 30th October, says : — 



" The tide at Chittagong was unusually high during the day on Friday the 

 13th inst., but at high water at night it rose to its utmost height, being 1 

 foot 7 inches higher than the usual spring tides at the Suddur Ghat. For- 

 tunately it was a very calm night, for a very little wind would have speedily 

 driven the water over the little bunds which protect the adjacent salt golahs, 

 containing at present about 50 lacs of Rupees worth of salt. 



" The natives say that the whole island of Kotubdea was submerged, the 

 water being 4 or 5 feet above the river. 



" I find that what 1 have written has not much to do with the cyclone, 

 except as shewing that some unusual influence must have been at work in 

 the Bay to produce the extraordinary high tides here. By the kindness of a 

 friend I am enabled to give the fall of rain at foot 11 inches on the 13th, 

 and foot 05 inches on the 14th. The same authority states that the Baro- 

 meter was high throughout the two days. As far as I observed the wind, I 

 think it blew chiefly from the South and South-East, especially on the 14th. 

 The tides continued high on the 15th, but gradually diminished." 



Extract from the Log of the Schooner Eagle, Cupt. Darby, (No. 4, 

 in the Chart,) from Calcutta to Arracan. Reduced to Civil Time, 



On Tuesday, 10th Oct. 1848, the Eagle was at noon in Lat. 19° 44' N. j 

 Long. 90° 35' E. 5 Bar. 29.30; Ther. 84°, with a steady E. N. E. breeze and 

 fine weather, p. m. wind easterly till midnight ; at sunset smart gales E. b, 

 N. North and East ; standing to the S. Eastward. 



llth Oct. — a. m. wind East and E. N. E. ; daylight heavy squalls from East 

 and N. E. ; 8 a. m. wind chopped to E. S. E. Noon moderate and cloudy ; 

 Lat. 19° 6'; Long. Indiffr. Obs. 91° 15' East; Bar. 29.15. p. m. mo- 

 derate with a heavy sea from the East. 2 p. m. squally and weather threat- 

 ening. Wind p. m. East to E. S. E, strong gales ; 4 p. m. smart gales, and 

 set storm main-sail. 6 increasing throughout the night to a heavy gale from 

 E. S. E. with a tremendous high sea. Bar. 8 p. m. 29.15 ; Simp. 29.00. 



90° 36' E. with a moderate Southerly gale, is given, and the copyist has most mis- 

 chievously omitted the distance run, though the course and winds are set down. All 

 that I can glean from it then is, that at noon on the llth she was under double reefs, 

 wind S. E. ; and by 7.30 she hove to with a gale from S. E. ; that she continued so 

 during the 12th, wind always S. E., and made sail only at sunset of the 13th, 

 reaching Akyab on the 14th. 



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