846 Eighteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms [Aug. 



12th October. — Winds variable from the N. Westward, with cloudy weather 

 and squally at times ; ship standing 5 and 6 knots to the N. N. E. and N. E. 

 At noon Lat. by Acct. 17° 46' N. ; Long. 89° 6' East ; Bar. 29.37. p. m. A 

 ship in sight to the N. N. W. standing S. E. under close reefed topsails, with 

 top gallant masts down. 3 p. m. Bar. 29.25, and falling fast since noon ; made 

 preparations for bad weather, p. m. wind variable from N. Wd. ; at 4, Westerly ; 

 5, S. Westerly ; at 7, S. b. E., at 8 S. S. E. and at 10 S. E. b. S., force increasing 

 from 4 to 9 to midnight; ship running to the N. E. b. N., North and N. N. W. 

 from 4 to 10 knots. Midnight Lat. by Acct. 18° 55' ; Long 88° 44' E. High 

 sea getting up ; Bar. 29.25. 



13th October. — 3 a. m. Bar. 29.30 ; at 8h 30'. 29.40. Set foresail ; at 11 h. 

 Bar. 29.45 ; wind S. E. b. S. to 6, when E. S. E. ; at 8 East and at noon E. S. E. 

 force 8. Lat. Obs. 20° 27' N. ;* Long, about 87.35, according to Capt. Molison, 

 Bar. noon 29.50 ; Ther. 82<>. p. m. Moderate gale (force 8) E. b. N. cloudy, 

 gloomy, hazy and constant rain; 1 h. 36. in 35 fs. water off Cape Palmiras 4 

 p. m. Bar. 29.40, at 6, 29.20; wind E. N. E. (9). Gale increasing; 7.30, a per- 

 fect hurricane, with thick hard rain ; Bar. 29.00 ; wind E. S, E (11 — 12). At 8 

 Bar. 21.80. Soon after 7. 30. p. m. lost bowsprit and foremast and main and 

 mizen topmasts, quarter boats, &c. At 10 wind veering to S. E. (10) at 12 

 Southerly (11 — 12) Bar. 29.05, hurricane raging with the utmost fury. 



14th Oct. — 3 a. m. wind S. S. W. ; 4 Bar. 29.30, hurricane moderating; 5. 30 

 A. m. saw False Point Light house S. W. ; sounded in 7 fathoms water. At 6 

 came too in 5 f. False Point Light S. b. W. To noon gale decreasing from 

 S. b. W. 



Abstract from the Log of the ship Edmundsbury, Capt. Redpath, 

 (No. 14 on the Chart,) from Ceylon hound to Calcutta — reduced to 

 Civil Time. 



I am indebted to Mr. Thos. Scallan of the Pilot service, for some 

 notes corrective of this ship's log, arising from errors of the copyist, or 

 from the confusion incident to vessels on their beam ends with their 

 ballast shifted, in a hurricane. It was probably filled up from recollec- 

 tion, and contained some evident oversights. 



* The true position is isbout 18° 40'; Long. 88° 44'. The Log is very carefully 

 marked, but it gives 31' more of northing than the observation of the following day, 

 which I take to be owing to the southerly current off Point Palmiras, arising from the 

 curving of the Easterly set over the Sand Heads, as will be shewn in the remarks. 

 The current was probably much heavier, for the ship had, no doubt, the storm current 

 and perhaps a little of the storm wave in her favour. 



