24 A Twentieth Memoir on the Law of Storms. [No. 8. 



Abridged Log of the Ship Ardaseer, Capt. Lovett, from Bombay 

 to Calcutta. Civil Time. 



The Ardaseer was at Noon 25th April, in Lat. 15° 07' N. ; Long. 82.° 54' 

 East with light Northerly breezes and fine weather. Bar. at 29.70. 



26th April. — Lat. 16° 2' N. : Long. 83° 53' East; Bar. 29.58 ; fresh 7 knot 

 breeze at N. W. b. W. with a tremendous sea; course N. E. b. N. p. m. breeze 

 decreasing with a dark gloomy appearance and a heavy swell from the Eastward ; 

 at 4 p. m. light airs. Bar. 29.50, to 29.37 at 8 p. m. when dark and gloomy 

 to S. East with a terrific swell, the ship pitching violently. Midnight Bar. 

 29.47. 



27th April.— Breeze from S. S. E. and fine. Lat. 17° 05' N. ; Long. 86° 

 00' East. Bar. 29.70 ; Ther. 87°. 



Abridged Note from the Log of the Ship Belle Alliance, Capt. 



Stephens. 



This vessel on the 25th April, in Lat. 16° 30' N. ; Long. 83° 5' East ; had 

 her Bar. 29.73 (from 29.85 on the 24th) ; Simp. 29.45 (from 29.45 on the 

 24th); Ther. 85°; very cloudy with an appearance of bad weather. Fresh 

 wind at North with a very heavy sea from the N. East making the ship plunge 

 very heavily. On the 27th, Southerly winds and fine weather. 



Extract from the Log of the Butch Ship Neerlandsch Indie, 

 Capt. L. DELCLisuR,/rom Calcutta to Amsterdam. Civil Time. 



The Neerlandsch Indie left the Pilot at midnight 24th, 25th, — April, 1850; 

 and from that time stood to the S. S. W. with winds from N. N. E. and cloudy 

 weather with rain. 



Noon 25th April by D. R. in Lat. 20° 8' N. ; Long. 87° 53' East. Bar. 

 29.93; Ther. 86°. Light winds from N. E. cloudy weather with rain; at 10 

 p. m. increasing wind with a rising sea : made all preparations for bad weather, 

 and reduced ship to bare poles. 



26th April. — At 3 a.m. the sea still increasing causing the ship to labour 

 much, and to take in water over all. Shortly after, the sky from being slightly- 

 cloudy , became thick and dark and rising ahead, the Barometer still falling. 

 In the morning at 4 o'clock it stood at 29.72; Thermometer 86, all of which 

 taken together made us surmise that we were in the neighbourhood of a hurri- 

 cane. Decided in consequence on laying to under close reefed main topsail 

 with the starboard tack on board, her head laying S. E. Southerly. The storm 

 increased speedily in power, so that at noon the sea was terrific. The seas were 



