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Notice of the Storms 



[No. 3^, 



Lieutenant Newbold not long ago read a paper before the Royal 

 Society on a pot of coins subsequently discovered in the same district. 

 These with other Roman coins occasionally discovered may have 

 found their way into Pandaver by Killikerry the Colchos of Ptolemy, 

 being given in exchange for pearls, or imported as previously con- 

 jectured. History makes no mention of a Roman station in the south 

 of India, whence such coins might have been issued ; it is very re- 

 markable, however, that the historical books of the Brahmins of Tu- 

 lava in Canara contain an account of an European or Yavana dynasty 

 ruling formerly at Anagundi. By Yavana, I apprehend, is meant the 

 children of Yuvan or Javan the great ancestor of the Greeks, though 

 by slight alteration it might be read Fe^vana or iS'e^vana, that is the 

 country of Europeans or Europe, ^na being an expression indicative 

 of a land found in all quarters of the Globe, thus in Europe Bri^am 

 or BritttTzma, AWemaigne or Germawta, 'Es^agne or Hispfltwia, Lusi- 

 tania, kc. ; in Asia Hindoos^«w, J^pan, Affghanisto, Turki^^aw, &c. 

 in Africa Tettuan Hinzuan, kc: in America Yutacaw, &c. 



Huna is another name for Europe occurring in the ancient Brah- 

 minical books. 



IV. Notice of the Storms experienced at Madras on the 20th 

 October and 25th November, 1846. By J. J. Franklin, Esq. 



The gale which' was experienced at Madras on the 20th October, 

 1846, was not of that violent nature, which is the usual characteris- 

 tic of these visitations in tropical climates ; and many persons ima- 

 gined that it was not of the class of rotatory Storms from the fact 

 that the wind during its continuance did not veer round more than a 

 point or two. This, however, may be easily accounted for by suppos- 

 ing the nucleus of the storm to have been formed to the North of 

 Madras, proceeding thence in an undulating Northerly direction, and 

 passing^t^^een Masulipatam and Guntoor, at which places it will be 

 seen, on inspection of the diagram, that it was blowing at one and the 

 same time from opposite points of the compass ; and that, as the nu- 

 cleus approached and passed those stations, the wind shifted in a man- 

 ner perfectly reconcilable to the assumption of its motion being cir- 

 cular. 



Some hours before it commenced at Madras the wind had been 

 blowing briskly from W. S. W. to W. N. W. -with an unusual fall 



