520 A Twenty 4lm 'd Memoir on the Law of Storms. [No. 6. 



Abridged Extract from the Log of the H. C. Floating Light Vessel 



Hope, Commander H. Hiller ; at the Saugor Point Station — Civil 

 Time. 



2\st Oct. 1852. — a. M. moderate N. East winds, cloudy and rain ; 8 A. M. 

 stronger winds; dirty looking weather. Noon wind increasing at East 

 cloudy and squally with passing showers. 4 p. M. strong S. S. E. winds 

 and cloudy dirty weather with frequent heavy squalls : sunset the same ; 

 8 p. M. blowing hard at S. E. b. S. attended with heavy squalls, thunder, 

 lightning and rain and a heavy sea; 10 p. m. veered to 115 fathoms cable. 

 From 9 p. M. to midnight heavy gale at S. S. E. attended with a heavy 

 sea and heavy gusts, and cloudy dirty weather with rain. Aneroid morning* 

 (9 a. m. ?) 30.40 ; Ther. 75° ;t Bar. A 2.9.80 ; Ther. 80° ; Bar. B 29.85 ; Ther. 

 81°. Noon Aneroid 30.37; Ther. 74° ; Bar. A 29.75; Ther. 80°; Bar. B 

 29.85; Ther. 82.° Night (8 p. m. ?) Aneroid 30.75; Ther. 78°; Bar. A 

 At 29.70 ; Ther. 80°; Bar. B 29.81 ; Ther. 80.° 



22nd October. — Strong S. S. E. gales, heavy sea, squally and rain to 8 a. m. 

 Daylight to noon, the same, with thick dirty cloudy weather. Sunset, gale 

 increasing to a hurricane attended with heavy squalls, and a heavy sea. At 

 6 p. M. driving, let go the second anchor, but the chain of the larboard anchor 

 fouling and cutting the coir cable slipped it, 8. p. M. wind S. S. E. midnight 

 a complete hurricane at S. S. E. with heavy squalls and a heavy sea with 

 thick weather. Aneroid morning 30.40; Ther. 75° ; Bar. A 29.81; Ther. 

 86o ; Bar. B 29.85; Ther. 82°; 8 a. m. Aneroid 30.35; Ther. 76°; Bar. A. 

 29.75 ; Ther. 84 ; Bar. B 29.80 ; Ther. 82° ; 4 P. M. Aneroid 30.20 ; 

 Ther. 76o ; Bar. A 29.51 ; Ther. 85° ; Bar. B 29.75—82. Midnight, Ane- 

 roid 30.10; Ther. 75°; Bar. A 29.10 ; Ther. 82°; Bar. B 29.10 ; Ther. 80°. 



23rd Oct. — a. M. Blowing a complete hurricane at S. S. E. with terrific 

 squalls and thick weather, heavy rain and sea. I a. m. a heavy squall struck 

 the vessel and laid her on her beam ends washing away quarter boat ; 8.40 

 A. m. vessel took the ground striking heavily ; weather, so thick that no 

 land could be seen ; 8 a. m. hurricane "shifted to the westward with terrific 

 squalls ;" 9 a. m. cleared a little, found her on shore, a little to the northward 

 at Fakeer's Creek with 4 feet water in the hold. Three men of a Mal- 

 dive vessel with 42 hands on board, which had foundered, and the crew of 

 the Barque Bengalee, came in sight. Noon more moderate at West; 8 p. M. 

 strong W. N. W. winds. From a. m. to 4 a. m. the Aneroid fell from 30.10 



* Morning and night; so given throughout ! I suppose at 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. 

 are meant, ? 

 f So in MSS. 



