JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. VI.— 1854. 



A Twenty-third Memoir on the Law of Storms in the Indian and 

 China Seas ; being the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation 

 Company's Ship Precursor's Cyclone, of October, 1851. — By Hen- 

 ry Plddington, President of Marine Courts. 



This Memoir furnishes us not only with a new track for the 

 Cyclones at the Sand Heads, but, at length, an instance of the rare, 

 though not unexpected case of the undoubted curving of a Cyclone 

 track to the North-East in the Bay of Bengal, analogous to those 

 which are so commonly seen in the "Western hemisphere \ and which 

 we have recently shewn to occur in the China Sea. 



I commence the documents with the Logs of the ships farthest 

 to the Southward, so as to trace the Cyclone inwards from sea. 

 The documents are followed by a tabular arrangement of them and 

 a summary, detailiug the data on which this remarkable track is laid 

 down, and this by remarks on the various accessary phenomena 

 and results of the investigation. 



Abridged Log of the Barque Ararat, Capt. Eitchie, from Mauri- 

 tius to Calcutta — reduced to Civil Time. 



\8th October, 1852.— The Ararat was at Noon in Lat. 11° 35' North; 

 Long. 87° 12' East, with her Barometer at 29.82 ; Ther. 8/°. Steering to the 

 north with a six knot breeze at W. S. W. ; p. m. a little squally. 



I9lh Oct. — a. m. more settled; but at daylight dark cloudy weather with 

 sharp squalls, continuing to Noon when Lat. 13° 50' N. ; Long. 29° 81' E. ; 

 Ther. 84°; Bar. not marked; Wind from W. S. W. to W. b. N. p. m. wind 



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