428 A Twenty-fourth Memoir on the Law of Storms. [No. 5, 



In describing the track and ravages of the storm, Mr. Crank mentions 

 that a large Casuarina tree, at about 100 yards distant from the East 

 verandah of his house, was literally cut off even with the surface of the 

 earth. His Bauleah which was securely fastened adjacent to it was torn 

 to pieces, the roof of the cabin being thrown many hundred yards to the 

 Westward ; while some of the windows were picked up at nearly a mile 

 distant.* His house was reduced to such a ruin that it- was dangerous to 

 approach it, the parapet wall, balustrades, &c. being, as it were, cut off. 



Mr. Crank seems to think that the force of the storm was most strongly 

 felt for about half a mile on each side of Baugundee, and he estimates 

 the track of country over which it passed by the accounts from his salt 

 choivhies (station houses). This would make the centre one mile in 

 breadth only, and accounts in part for the awful violence of it within that 

 limit, for it has always been found that when the diameter of the central 

 lull is small, the intensity of the Cyclone there is much greater. 



He farther states that great loss of life, and of cattle and other proper- 

 ty took place in consequence of the excessive and sudden rise of the rivers 

 all over the Sunderbunds, which obliged those who had no other resource 

 to take refuge in the trees. 



Reports from Steamers in the Sunderhunds. 

 Two of the Eiver Steamers, one of them the property of Government 

 and the other belonging to the Ganges Steam Navigation Company, were 

 driven on shore in the Sunderbunds ;f and carried by the storm wave up 

 over the trees I into the jungle, from whence they had to be extricated by 

 cutting canals after the Cyclone was over. The following are their logs 

 which fortunately serve very accurately to mark the track of the centre, as 

 they were on the Eastern verge of the centre (wind veering from E. S. E. 

 to S. S. E. and South, to West) and their positions being at a short 

 distance from each other only and 44 miles S. b. E. of Baugundee. 



* In a severe Tyfoon from the Bay of Manilla in 1816, when all the ships lying 

 at Cavite were driven on shore, an American ship lost her cutters, which were blown 

 from the davits. About a month after the gale the Captain of the ship taking a 

 walk into the country saw something very strange in a mangoe tree near a village 

 about four miles from the anchorage, and paid an Indian to get it down for him. 

 It proved to be the stern of his own cutter ! 



f Indian readers do not require to be told, but some European ones may, that 

 the Sunderbunds comprise a vast extent of low jungly islands, as large as the prin- 

 cipality of Wales, intersected by a thousand large and small rivers, streams, and 

 creeks forming the Delta of the Ganges and Hooghly, and in which boats are 

 perfectly sheltered. 



