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NOTES OX THE CYCLONE 
10 A.M., and 1 P.M., and calculating the distances from the 
centre at these hours. Similarly we can take the Armeghon 
observations and calculate the gradient nearer the centre, 
this gives 0'016 inches as the average gradient per mile 
between two points 10 miles from the centre and 45 miles 
from the centre, which would indicate a gradient of 0"02 near 
the centre, and a reading at the centre of between 28' 4 
and 28"5, which, though by no means the lowest on record, 
is a very low reading. 
In the above calculation several things have been 
assumed. One of these is that the cyclone was advancing 
at a speed of abou.t 15 miles an hour. This is deduced from 
the position of the storm centre next day when, according 
to the Weather Report, it lay midway between Bellary and 
Karwar, at 10 a.m. Other observations confirm this result. 
The path of the centre after it reached tlie land is fairly well 
defined, and there seems no reason to suppose that it suffered 
much change of direction on passing from the sea to the 
land. The reports received from the lighthouse-keepers 
at Armeghon and Coromandel show that the centre passed 
somewhere between these two stations. The report from 
Armeghon is as follows : — 
"At 5 A.M., on November 9th, the barometer was 29-83, with 
the wind at north-north-east and continued falling rapidly, till, 
at 2 P.M., it stood at 28-79, a reading so low as was never before 
recorded in this department. The wind at that hoiu' veered to 
east, changing afterwards to south-east and south. The baro- 
meter at 2-15 began to rise, and the rising was as rapid as 
the fall ; at 9 p.m. it was 29-80, with the wind to the south. 
Great damage was done to the lighthouse, a large portion of 
the plastering of the column having been blown off, and the 
buildings belonging to it were also much damaged. The sea 
rose so high that the water inundated the village, and stood 
nearly 2A feet deep round the lighthouse and Superintendent's 
bungalow." 
