'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎7] (108/496)

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Zemindar had S. W. winds, with “ a heavy swell from S. E.’" Be
tween the position of the Buckinghamshire on one side and Ceylon
on the other, we may infer the existence of the centre of the gale,
although we have no information of any vessel having been in that
tract of ocean excepting those whose fate has been surmised as indi
cative of very bad weather.
On the 15th, it is said to have been “ very windy” at Colombo.
The direction is not ascertained, but there could be little doubt that it
was about S. E. to S. S. E., as we find from good observations that
at Colombo on this day a heavy gale, with lightning, thunder and rain,
was blowing from E. by S. with a force of 6*2 pounds (a “ great
storm”) ; and off Cape Comorin the Ceylon Island had it “ blowing tre
mendously at S. E., and the vessel, under bare poles, running before
it.” On the Neilgherries, at the Dodabetta Observatory, it appears that
hourly observations only gave a variation from E. by N. to E. ^ S. in
the 24 hours, but the gale had a pressure of 10 pounds on the square
foot. In the open sea to the westward of Cape Comorin, the Buck
inghamshire at noon, in Lat. 9° S., Long. 73° 4 7 E., had “ fresh
N. 17. E, gales, severe squalls, a heavy sea, accompanied by inces
sant heavy rain, thunder and lightning,” and in the course of the
preceding night “ split her foretopsail, foresail, and mainsail.”
Along the Malabar coast the gale was commencing at Cochin and
Calicut, and the Faize Rubahny “ in getting to the southward,” after
light airs or calms and hazy weather, “ caught a breeze at S. E.
about noon when in Lat. 12° 18' S.,” and her log-book records a “con
fused sea” to have been experienced—the usual harbinger of a ro
tatory storm before the wind even had set in.
Thus, as far as the facts in our possession extend, they shew a severe
gale blowing from south, by east, round to north, and it is only from
want of information that the fourth side is not determined ; and, re-
gai mg tna, we have not a single bit of evidence tending to inva-
lisW inferenCe ° f a Com P lete circle having been estab-
lence nft ? rgUment ’ deduCed fr ° m the kn0wn law the preva-
confirm o ' • m0nS ° 0n at the Season in question, would
connrm our opinions.
llie revolving character of the storm as it travelled
? “I’ “ ' ,ti11 developed on this day, as we have
satisfactory observation, from every gnadrant of the tempo, fs circle'