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placed, though she may have heenmoreto the Eastward. Yet we find 

 she had the wind at noon blowing a hurricane from E. N. E. veering 

 to North at 4 p. m., and to N. W. at 8, when it was "impossible to 

 look to windward." It is very clear that this could not have been any 

 part of the main Cyclone, and I am thus inclined to believe it to be a 

 smaller one thrown off from the main vortex, as we have so frequently 

 seen occurs, especially when near coasts ; and it is the more certain that 

 this occurred as we find that the centre of the Cyclone passed False 

 Point at 10 p. m. of the 13th, while the Asiatic was 72 miles to the 

 South of that spot, near the centre of an evident Cyclone, or tornado 

 Cyclone, blowing a hurricane at E. N. E. at noon ; veering as we have 

 just described, the ship having evidently drifted round the centre on 

 its Western or advancing side ; and from the brief report from Ganjam, 

 as well as from the veering of this Cyclone, we may see it was travelling 

 up to the N. N. W. at least, if not on a more Northerly track.* The 

 note we have from Ganjam, in Lat. 19° 22'. N. ; or about on the 

 parallel of the Asiatic's position, shews that the Cyclone can only have 

 skirted the coast there. 



I have therefore with all these views placed the centre of the prin- 

 cipal Cyclone for this day in Lat. 19° 12' N. ; Long. 88° 13' East; 

 and assigned a small separate one to the Asiatic. 



On the 14th October at noon, we have the Camper down (No. 12) 

 and Collingwood (No. 13) close in with False Point, the latter ship 

 indeed at anchor to the Northward of it, and the Edmundsbury and 

 Framjee Cowasjee about 25 miles to the Southward of it. The 

 Cyclone with all these ships was moderating between 1 and 4 A. m. 

 from the South to S. S. W. and S. W. according to their positions, and 

 by noon it was nothing more than a gale rapidly decreasing. 



Descent of the Cyclone on the 12th, and its probable 



origin. 



If the Cyclone existed as one, at the surface of the ocean on any 



day preceding the 12th, we should doubtless find some distinct traces 



of it. For though we have as early as the 9th, and for the 10th, and 



11th, strong and heavy Southerly and S. S. Westerly breezes on the 



* The whole veering (E. N, E. to West) would give a N. b. W. track for this 

 little Cyclone. 



