'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎11] (114/496)

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wind veered from E.S.E. to South or S.W., but was somewhat
unsteady at the latter point; but when at S.E. its force was equal to
a pressure of thirty pounds on the square foot! for the space of
three hours.
From numerous places along the Malabar coast, we have a heap
of information before us, all strongly corroborating the facts adduced
in favour of a rotatory direction in the gale ; and its devastating ef
fects on the Coast and Laccadive Islands have already been laid before
the public in many interesting notices in the Bombay Telegvaph and
Courier.
While the storm raged with such fury on the southern part of the
coast, at Poona the weather was hot, sultry, and threatening. It
was only on the evening of this day, or a few hours after noon, at the
period to which the preceding remarks are referrible in order to
render them simultaneous, that a fresh easterly wind set in at this
place, and heavy massy cumulous clouds were hanging on the southern
horizon, pouring out electricity so unceasingly as to keep up a steady
and lurid illumination of the mountains in that direction. A few
showers occurred, and *57 inches of rain fell.
. 0n the — For tlie purpose of shewing the path and progres
sion of the tempest on two consecutive days, a second diagram (No.
2) has been projected, in which the course of the wind at different
points is laid down in accordance with the information in our pos
session. It will be seen at a glance, that after a lapse of 24 hours,
during which the stormy mass of atmosphere had moved along the
coast from Lat. 11° S. to Lat. 14° W, the revolving direction is
perfectly evident. Circumstances not under my control prevent me
from giving a more complete series of these diagrams, as they are
always much more useful in conveying a correct notion of the gale
than pages of letter press.
We now discover that S.W. winds were blowing off Cape Comorin^
w ere a few days before they had been at N.E., or the opposite quarter.
The H. C. Steamer Sesostvis (No. 3) was well to the westward of
the more violent part of the typhoon, but still she had bad weather,
m Lat. 13 55 , Long. 71° 13^ with the wind North, and “ a heavy
’ sea rising in pyramidal masses/ 5