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NOTES ON THE CYCLONE 
of the storm centre was nearly a straight line fi-om where it 
struck the east coast to its position on the lyth, this line 
being in a direction west 14° north, and crossing the west 
coast about half way between Karwar and Groa. The S.S. 
Mobile met the storm on the 15th. At 9 p.m. on that day 
it must have been very near the centre, for the barometer 
fell to 29' 15 inches. The ship was then in lat. 23° 36' N., 
long. 62° 10' E., and, since the wind backed from the east 
to the north, the centre was to the north of the ship. This 
shows that the path of the cyclone had been entirely changed, 
and that the centre was then moving nearly due north. 
The Henry BoJchoic at noon on the 15th was in lat. 23° 30' 
N., long. 61° 54' E., and had the wind south-east. At 4-30 
P.M. the barometer reached its lowest point, 29"32 inches, 
and the wind was now in the north-east. At 6 p.m. the 
ship was midway between Ras-al-had and Grwetter. The 
wind shifted to west then to north-north-west, and by 8 p.m. 
the weather was quite clear. 
Of the rainfall during the storm I have not been able to 
get any details. Certainly it cannot have been excessive^ for 
the rainfall for the whole month was nowhere much above 
ten inches in the districts affected. ^ It is much to be 
regretted that more detailed information on this head is 
not available. 
There are several points of special interest concerning 
this storm. The barometric depression was exceptionally 
great. On this point Mr. Pogson remarks in the Gazette : 
" It is probable that the centre landed somewhere between 
the latitudes of NeUore and Ongole, and that it was, near 
its central path, one of the heaviest storms that has visited 
this Presidency next after those of 30th October 1836 (when 
2 A gentleman present at the meeting at which the paper -was read stated 
that the rainfall increased from about 3 inches near Eunore to about 10 
inches near Pulicat. 
