'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎1] (228/258)

APPENDIX, A.
METEOROLOGY.
The following is the list of Storms adverted to at page xxxiil. I had hoped
to have been able to have made it much more perfect than it is While it may ba
regarded, so far as the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal are concerned, tolerably
perfect for twenty six years back—or even as respects the China Seas as far East
as Canton,—in reference to the Cape, Mauritius, and other places South of the
Line, it is of no value whatever. Of the sixty-one hurricanes which have
occurred in the quarter first named from 1830 to 1854, the folioivin°- is the
proportions for each month in the year ;—
January 0
July 4
August 5
September 8
October 12
November 9
December 5
The following gives the numbers for each of the years just named;—
February 0
March l
April 5
May 9
June 2
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
0
0
4
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
2
5
1648. May 16. 1^27th present reckoning.) A furious hurricane prevailed from
Bombay northward, accompanied by an earthquake.
1737. October 7. A violent earthquake and furious hurricane at the mouth of
the Ganges, which reached sixty miles up the river—20,000 craft of all descrip
tions destroyed ; eight English ships, with most of their crews, lost in the Ganges
— 300,000 people said to have perished in Lower Bengal or in the Gulf; the
river rose 40 feet above its usual level. An English church and steeple sunk into
the earth next morning.
1746. December 6 . Six French men-of-war blown out of Madras Roads by a
hurricane: one of these foundered ; four were dismasted ; twenty other vessels
either driven ashore or lost at sea ;—the storm not so much as felt at Pondi
cherry.
1774. April 13. A furious hurricane set in on the Coromandel Coast just as the
English were about to march on Tanjore: the camp blown down, the tents torn
into rags. Two Indiamen stranded; the Apollo, hospital ship, the Bentinck 60
guns, and Nanur, 74, lost, with nearly all on board.