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



Sunday, 9th May. — a. m. weather clear, with strong S. E. wind. Noon 

 wind S. W. j p. m. very hot, atmosphere hazy ; 6| p. m. a wind, stormy 

 appearance to the N. W. night close and cloudy. 



Monday, 10th May.— A lurid haze prevailing throughout the day. 

 "Wind high, variable N. E. to S. W. ; p. m. high wind throughout the 

 night. 



Tuesday, 11th May. — The same as yesterday. 



Wednesday, 12th May. — Atmosphere somewhat clearer, wind as yes- 

 terday. 



Thursday, \Wi May.—k. m. heavy clouds to the South. Wind S. E. 

 and blowing strong throughout. 



Friday, \Uh May. — a. m. heavy black clouds all round, wind blowing 

 very strong from the East all day. p. m. cloudy; 7i p. m. wind increas- 

 ing till 11 p. m. when it blew a hurricane from the Eastward, midnight 

 wind from N. E. with much rain. 



Saturday, 15th May. — 1 a. m. gale blowing with tremendous force, trees 

 and houses falling in all directions ; gale continued with unabated force 

 till 5 a. m. when it lulled slightly and the wind veered round by the 

 North to the West, whence it blew very hard till near 9 a. m. whence the 

 wind fell considerably, and at 10 A. m. the rain ceased. 3 p. m. wind 

 high from S. W. 



Sunday, \6th May. — Light S. W. b. S. wind, with very hazy atmosphere. 



Monday, YJth May. — a. m. clear, few clouds about, wind S. E. ; 9 p. M. 

 a North Wester with a shower of rain. 



The whole country round wears a most desolate aspect. 



Report from the road from Jessore towards Calcutta. — By 

 GK E. Cooper, Esq/. 



Being at Jessore during the late storm and returning thence direct by 

 dak to Calcutta on Friday last I was enabled to make a few observations 

 which, though in all probability, you are already acquainted with, I will 

 endeavour to lay before you. 



During the whole of the previous day we had a high East wind at 

 Jessore which increased during the night to a perfect hurricane. At or 

 before break of day the storm was at its greatest fury, the wind being 

 then from the South East, later in the day and when the storm had 

 abated, the wind was N. Westerly. 



For some twenty miles the South side of Jessore, the storm, judging 

 from the fallen timber, appears to have taken the same course, but after 

 passing that distance or say thirty miles from Jessore, the current appears 



