1855.] A Twenty -fourth Memoir on the Law of Storms, 461 



two stories where every thing is vibrating by the force of the wind 

 might be, unless the shocks were very strong and sudden. Some re- 

 ports also reached me that some of the pensioners and Commis- 

 sariat Officers who reside at Cooly Bazar,* where the houses are 

 all lower-roomed ones only, had also experienced shocks of earth- 

 quakes, and I sent a paper of queries for circulation amongst the 

 occupiers of these houses, but only one person clearly and distinctly 

 stated that he had experienced a shock of an earthquake between 

 12 and 1 A. M. of the 15th, in that locality. 



Banks of Clouds. 

 It will be noticed that in the Balasore, Pooree (Cuttack), Dinaj- 

 pore, and other reports the Banks of Clouds indicating the position 

 of the passing or approaching Cyclone, were very distinctly seen, 

 so that had these been ships at sea they would from this sign alone, 

 have had ample and timely warning to take all necessary precautions. 



Electric Noises. 



Mr. Crank's report of these singular and appalling sounds is, I 

 think, conclusive when taken with what I have brought together in 

 the Horn Book, p, 179, regarding the noises heard on the approach 

 and at the passage of the centre of Cyclones,) as to their being elec- 

 tric phenomena^ ? but the peculiar interest of Mr. Crank's report is 

 that it corroborates on shore what we have such ample evidence of 

 at sea. That my readers may not suppose there is any exaggera- 

 tion in this gentleman's account I copy here from Luke Howard's 

 Climate of London, Yol IT. p. 151, in a description of the October 

 Cyclone of 1811, as experienced off Halifax by H. M. S. Tartarus 

 and three other men-of-war, the following passage, " I would if 

 possible give you a description of the noise occasioned by the hurri- 

 cane but I am unequal to the task : if you can conceive however all 

 the savage animals of the brute creation assembled to affright man- 

 kind by their roaring you will have some faint idea of the deafening 

 variety of sounds in the tempest we have experienced !" 



The report from Cuttack will also be found to afford some re- 

 markable electric evidences. 



* A. suburb of Calcutta about one mile to the south of the forts on the banks 

 of the river. 



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