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each of which is separately considered before the next is entered upon. 

 The three first will be found to be highly interesting to Meteorolo- 

 gists, as connecting, so to say, the Tornado with the stationary 

 Cyclone, and the last from its remarkable track between two Vol- 

 canic Islands ! 



I. 



The Noacolly Toknado of 1814. 



Eroin the Bengal Hurharu of 23rd May, 1814, I have abridged 

 the following account of a very violent tornado- Cyclone which ap- 

 pears to have travelled to the Eastward of the Meridian. 



" On the 11th instant this station (Noacolly) was visited with the 

 most violent tornado (if I may be allowed the expression) that has 

 occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. It began to 

 blow very strong from the S. E. at day break, and the gale continued 

 to freshen to 11 o'clock, when its fury became irresistible. After 

 blowing about two hours from the East and South East the wind 

 veered round by the Northward and returned with redoubled violence 

 carrying every thing before it. Providentially it abated at 4 p. M., 

 for had it continued during the night, dreadful would have been 

 the consequences." The writer then goes on to detail the danger 

 sustained at the station in houses, bungalows, trees, cattle, native 

 huts, boats, &c, and the sea rose above ten feet above its usual 

 level, doing vast mischief by the inundation, and as an example of 

 the force of the wind, he states that the Surgeon of the station 

 whose bungalow was destroyed, though a stout athletic man, was 

 repeatedly blown down in the fields while endeavouring to reach ano- 

 ther house for shelter, and was an hour and a half travelling the dis- 

 tance of half a mile, and that thatched roofs and beams were blown 

 to incredible distances. 



In violence, then, there is therefore no doubt that this equalled a 

 "West Indian hurricane. And if we take the veering to have been, 

 as well as we can make out from this account, from S. E. to North, 

 this would give it a track to the E. N. E. from the W. S. W. 



This tornado was also felt in great fury, for about four hours at 

 Chittagong, where the rise of the water is stated to have been seven 

 or eight feet beyond the mark of the high spring tides. I have not 



