894 Eighteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms. [Sept. 



no one can possibly answer for, although many are but just from sight 

 of the land, or from the pilot, yet several are now two or three days 

 without observations, in strong or severe gales, and some no doubt 

 within the influence of the storm wave and current. 



The nearest vessel to the centre at noon on this day was the Ararat, 

 No. 5, which vessel had the centre passing her between 4h. and 6h. 

 45' p. m., or say at 5 p. m. 



At 1 p. m. the wind is marked as N. E. and her position is given 

 by Acct. as in 19° 20 ; North ; Long. 88° 30' East ; but upon examining 

 and working over her log I do not consider that sufficient allowance has 

 been made for leeway and drift in such weather as she evidently had ; the 

 gale, being described in the log as "terrific" at 4 a. m. and the squalls 

 "frightful" at noon, when no doubt they were close upon the centre. 

 From these considerations then, and without any allowance for the storm 

 wave, I have placed her at noon in 19° 3Y 1 N. ; Long. 88° 6 ; East ; and 

 the centre close to her, as it was moving up from the S. Eastward, while 

 she was drifting down across its track from the N. E. 



The next to the Ararat is the Sir Robert Seppings (No. 1 1) also with 

 the wind at N. E. of variable force, and veering to S. E. by 2, and S. S. 

 E. by 5 p. m. and apparently most violent, at 7 p. m. when she had drif- 

 ted close to the centre and lost her main and mizenmasts with other 

 damage. The Cyclone passed close to her, but she did not, it seems, 

 drift into its centre like the Ararat. Captain Stuart informs me that 

 his position as estimated at 7 p. m. when at the height of the Cyclone, 

 is he believes nearly correct, as he worked it with every allowance, both 

 forward and backward. 



We have then No. 14, the Edmundsbury. This ship was one of 

 those which put to sea with her pilot on board, and must have been in 

 much distress, for her ballast shifted in the Cyclone. As she expe- 

 rienced the calm and shift, her log and remarks are highly valuable, and 

 I have calculated her position as nearly as possible. The Camperdown, 

 No. 12, stood to sea from the pilot at noon of the 12th to the S. East- 

 ward, but as the winds were barely at any time to the Northward of 

 E. N. E. and mostly East, with a heavy lee current and sea and her 

 leeway, she possibly may have been quite as much to the Westward as I 

 have placed her, though not farther to the Southward at noon ; although 

 she seems by her log to have headed to the South till she reached the 



