On the Cyclones of Tasmania, cc. 895 
Straits, the winds partake of the nature of those on the East 
coast, where the gale often blows hardest between South and 
South East, and is accompanied with thick weather, and 
frequently with heavy rain.” 
Mr. Piddington, in the ‘ Sailor’s Horn Book of Storms,” 
has thrown out the very probable suggestion that these 
gales are the Northern portions of Cyclones, which have an 
Easterly progressive motion. So long as this remains a 
mere suggestion, few would haye the temerity to act upon it, 
in cases where life and property were involved. ‘To justify 
a practical application of the suggestion, a demonstration of 
its correctness is necessary. In the following investigation 
of the Storms of July and August, 1852, I have been 
fortunate in obtaining accurate data from the log of H.M.S. 
Fantome, the Journal of Captain Major, of the ship Duke 
of Lancaster, of Liverpool; the log of the Packet Brig 
Emma, and the meteorological observations at the Magnetic 
Observatory, Hobart Town. The meteorological observations 
at Sydney, published in the *‘ Sydney Morning Herald,” are 
as complete and correct as could be desired. 'Tl:e barometrical 
observations at Melbourne, published in the “ Argus” news- 
paper, are taken at midnight, and therefore only once in 
twenty-four hours; the barometrical curve for Melbourne 
consequently has not the same pretensions to accuracy 
as those for Sydney, Hobart Town, and the Fantome 
which are formed from three, or more, daily observations. 
(Fig. IX.) * 
On the 28th July, the Duke of Lancaster, from London 
to Hobart Town, was in 48° 48'S., and 121° 20’ E., that 
is, about due West of Van Diemen’s Land, and South of 
King George's Sound :— 
* See ‘‘ Australian Cyclonology.” 
