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The Management of the Ships. Those which were at sea 

 scarcely require any comment, their errors, or good management, being 

 so clearly seen from their logs and the Charts. H. M.S. Fox seems 

 to have paid most severely for running too far in towards the centre. 

 The ships in Madras Roads, however, furnish very instructive lessons. 

 They all ran out more or less upon a wind, evidently to get an offing, 

 forgetting that in so doing, they were risking the chances of meeting 

 with the centre, by which if dismasted and thrown into the Northern 

 quadrants, or as in the case of the Runnimede and Briton (12th 

 Memoir; Journal, Vol. XIII.) if involved in it, they might have 

 been carried by it like helpless hulks on shore again. Whereas by 

 steering from a point to two or three points more to the Southward 

 they would rapidly have brought the wind to the Northward and to 

 the Westward of North, so as safely and easily to run round the 

 Cyclone and so return to their anchorage without straining a rope- 

 yarn. The direction of the wind and the fall of the Barometer were 

 infallible guides for them. 



The Barometric Indications. These are also of very great 

 interest, but as I have already prepared one paper upon them embody- 

 ing through the aid of our new Science of Cyclonology a discovery 

 which I think will be considered as one of much importance by Meteo- 

 rologists, and this will probably be followed by another, I will not 

 here anticipate upon what I may have to say in those papers. 



