JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. IV.— 1852. 



A Twenty -first Memoir on the Law of Storms in the Indian and 

 China Seas ; being the Cyclone of H. M. S. Fox, in the Bay of 

 Bengal, 30M April to 5th May 1851. By Henry Piddington, 

 President of Marine Courts. 



In the following Memoir, for the materials of which I am princi- 

 pally indebted to the zeal of Capt. Biden of Madras, the same 

 arrangement as with preceding ones has been adopted ; that is, the 

 documents are first given, and then a Tabular abstract of them, which 

 is followed by a detailed statement of the grounds on which the vari- 

 ous positions of the centre are laid down on the Chart, and by such 

 observations on the various phenomena of the Cyclone as may have 

 seemed necessary to direct attention to them. 



Abridged extract from the Log of the Shi}) Diatia, Capt. Fletcher, from 

 Sydney, forwarded by Capt. C. Biden, Madras. 



April 29th. — Moderate breeze during the night from W. S. W. to S. 

 W. At 8 a. m. severe squall with heavy rain. Noon strong breeze and 

 cloudy. Latitude by D. E. 1° 41' S. ; Long, by D. R. 86° 17' E. 



30/A. — Fresh breeze with hard squalls and heavy rain and lightning. 

 During these twenty-four hours wind veering from S. W. to West. Lati- 

 tude by Obs. 00° 06' N. ; Long, by Obs. 86° 00' E. 



May 1st. — Fresh breeze with hard squalls and heavy rain ; in reefs, and 

 made all preparations for heavy weather, obliged to haul the foresail up 



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