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is an excellent, and doubtless a careful one. If we had it we should be 

 able, as she had the wind carefully noted at N. N. E. (9), a full gale 

 at 3 A. m, to assign a nearly exact position for the centre at this time. 

 As it is however we shall not perhaps be far wrong in placing it at 2 

 A. m. in Lat. 12° 10' N. and Long. 89° 6' East. For its position at 

 noon of this day, the Wellington and Cowasjee having run out of the 

 circle, and the Eneas (without any reckoning) clearing her wreck, we 

 have that of the Nereid with a heavy gale at W. N. W. and the Atiet 

 Bohoman with a N. E. b. Northerly gale, rapidly increasing, having 

 had during the forenoon, the uncertain veerings of the wind between 

 N. b. E. and N. East, which indicate her to have been just on the 

 outer circles of the Cyclone and directly in its path. The French ship 

 La Meuse had also a commencement of blowing weather from this day 

 and the bearings from these ships will place the centre at noon in Lat. 

 13° 32 ; N. ; Long. 88° 45' East. The track appears to have curved 

 upwards in a more Northerly direction for these last 24 hours, as if 

 the Cyclone was now " bound' ' for Point Palmyras, instead of Coringa, 

 which it appeared to be from the 23rd and the 24th. We must not 

 omit to notice here that the Cowasjee Family, after cleverly running 

 back by the aid of the Western quadrants of the Cyclone to escape its 

 centre, had now bore up again, being at noon about 250 miles to the 

 South of the centre, but without the actual limit of the Cyclone. She 

 however, found the sea so heavy from the Northward that she could 

 carry very little sail. And this sea is constantly noticed in the log up 

 to the 27th, in Lat. 13° 45' North, the ship thus evidently following 

 in the track of the Cyclone, and ploughing through its rearward sea for 

 two days I* We find also on this day the first notice of its approach 

 to the Sand Heads in the " heavy leaden sky" of the Tavoy's log and 

 the threatening appearances noticed in the Coleroons, both shewing how 

 clear and unmistakeable the atmospheric indications are if properly 

 attended to, for the centre was on this day at 1\ degrees, or 450 miles, 

 distant from the Outer Floating Light. 



On the 26th of April. — We have the John McVicar homeward 



quently had to calculate the same ship's position twice, and sometimes three times 

 in the 24 hours from her log, to compare it with that of others. 



* See Col. Reid's Work "Progress and Development of the Law of Storms" 

 where these rearward seas are capitally delineated. 



