1854 ] A Twenty-third Memoir on the Law of Storms. 511 



Letter and Barometrical Tables from Mr. ~W. Barckley, 

 Superintendent of False Point Light House. 



I beg to forward you statements, and memoranda of the Cy- 

 clone, that visited False Point, and its vicinity. 



1st. In the forenoon of the 21st inst. I saw heavy clouds rising 

 to the Northward and Eastward, occasionally with heavy rain. At 

 noon the wind N. N. E. with heavy squalls and rain at intervals ; 

 at 4 p. i. 1 took great notice of the scuds from the Northward and 

 Westward, and a lower scud from the S. E. crossing each other with 

 a haze, and a red tinge. Bound the horizon, was a circle of haze, 

 and the breeze continued to freshen, till it increased to a strong 

 gale, and veered from N. N. E. to S. E. with heavy passing showers, 

 till 3 in the morning of the 22nd, with a falling Barometer all the 

 time ; but at times with a clear sky over head, and a thick haze 

 round the horizon. At 5.15 a. m. of the 22nd inst. the Cyclone was 

 at its highest, and at 7.30 a. m. it lulled to a stark calm, and then 

 it set in a heavy mist all round, but very black to the southward. 

 The calm lasted from 7.30 a. m. to 8.30 A. m. and then began to 

 blow hard till it increased to blow as heavy as it did to the S. E. # and 

 veered from South to "West till 3 p. m. when the Cyclone broke to 

 nearly a calm with a rising Barometer. 



2nd. I also make this remark on the storm wave ; that the sea 

 we could hear from 10 to 15 minutes, before the first roller reached 

 the Light House, and it came in with three regular steady rollers, 

 and then it was done, and left the whole place in an inundated state, 

 carrying every thing before it ; leaving us without a drop of fresh 

 water about the place. It was really frightful to hear it. If I 

 had been a landsman, I should thought it was an earthquake ; it has 

 swept one-third of Dod well's Island away, the height of itf was 

 23 feet, but this storm wave extended to a place called Tuldundah, 24 

 miles from the mouth of the Mahanuddee river ; this information I 

 received from my men whom I sent out in different directions, from 

 "W. N. W. to S. S. W. distance about 30 miles each way from the 

 Light House. At Tuldundah, even the embankment was washed 

 away. The names of the places that suffered greatly are Tikree, 

 Kodakon, Bogonatpore, Nowgong, Boliparra, Danton, Damapore, 

 * So in MSS. f The rise— W. B. 



