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cane" at South, and that at Noon it was S. W. and began to break 

 at 3 p. M. with the wind at West. 



Now if we trace this track, i. e. wind East at 3 A. m. and S. E. at 

 5, calm at 7.30 to 9.30 or say the centre passing at 8 a. m., then 

 renewing at South at 10 and becoming S. W. at Noon as just de- 

 scribed we shall find that with proper allowances for its probable 

 distance as shewn by the Barometer, this gives a track curving to 

 the N. N. East, the actual centre of the calm space being inland, a 

 few miles West of the Light House at 10 a. m. I need not say 

 that the fullest confidence is to be accorded to Mr. Barckley's 

 careful observations. 



At Noon we have the gale commencing only at E. N. E. with the 

 H. C. Schooner Orissa in Balasore Eoads, where we have also for- 

 tunately in Mr. Bond, the Master Attendant, another excellent 

 observer. It passed up to the Eastward of that station, veering gra- 

 dually to the N. E. and becoming " a gale ;" at 4 p. m. We should 

 have expected it to have begun earlier here, and I can only account 

 for this anomaly by the fact that the Northern and North Western 

 quadrants of the Cyclone, when the centre reached Ealse Point, 

 extended to the range of high hills (from 2000 to 2500 feet high) 

 called the Balasore Nilgherries, which form one of the Eastern 

 extremities of the great Yindhiya chain. These lie inland about 

 25 miles from that station, and may have occasioned the Cyclone to 

 lift up in that quarter for a time, and indeed to have turned off to 

 the North East, as we see it has done. At the Pilot station it 

 was now a heavy gale at South, and these winds will place the 

 centre in Balasore Eoads in about Lat. 21° 05' ; Long. 87° 40' East. 

 We have, it is true, also the logs of the Georgina and Cavery, but 

 as these vessels were drifting with the hurricane and their positions 

 uncertain, and both in distress ; the Georgina indeed at some dis- 

 tance to the S. East in 35 fathoms water, I have not used them.* 



October 23rd. — The next positions we have for the centre are from 

 the log of the P. and O. Steam Vessel Precursor and the H. C. 

 Buoy Vessel Grappler at Kedgeree ; where it fell calm at 4h. 30' 



* The Cavery was found after the gale to be at an anchor in 9 fs. off the Reef 

 of Point Palmiras, but even the time on board of this vessel was not well ascer- 

 tained in her distressed condition, as I afterwards learned. 



