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'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [25] (54/524)
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BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY,
XXV
A good many log-books are copied here ; but we have not received
any from vessels that experienced the Cyclone in question, otherwise I
should be happv to forward the extracts to Lieutenant Feigussom
Strong gales prevailed near the line on the 14th and 15th of November
in about 88° East.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
(Signed) C- Meldrum,
Secretary to the Meteorological Society of Mauritius.”
8. From tlie Honorable II. L. Anderson, C.S., Ciiiei Secretary to
Government, forwarding the following copy oi a letter from Lieutenant
Colonel Lewis Pelly, late Acting British Agent at Zanzibar, containing
cursory observations upon the Island of Mahe, the largest of the
Seychelle group :—
No. 9G of 1862.
' Secretary tot
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present tote
^teoroloialfc
To the Secretary to Government,
Political Department, Bombay.
g IR ^—X offer to the Government a few cursory observations upon the
Island of Mahe', the largest of the Seychelle group.
There are in all thirty islands in this group, varying in size from that
of Mahe, which is about seventeen miles long, by from three to four
miles broad, down to that of islets containing only a few acres of
ground.
The group may be divided into two clusters; one to the westward,
round Mahe, and the other to the eastward, round the Island of Piaslin,
which is next in size to Mahe. The general aspect of both clusters is
green and cheerful; but that of Mahe is the loftiest, for the peaks along
the backbone of Mahe itself may be nearly two thousand feet above the
water line, while Silhouette, a "woody, conical isle, lying about seventeen
miles to the northward of Mahe, rises into one central peak of from two
to three thousand feet in height.
The Seychelle Islands (which derive their name from a former French
Minister) are a granite formation, cropping up in the centre of a vast
bowl of coral. This bowl may have a diameter of some one hundred
and twenty miles : its rim rising nearest to the surface of the water
like one of the Athols described by Mr* Darwin. Approaching the
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.
Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1865.
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This volume contains a table of contents giving headings and page references, and two indexes. There is an index to Volumes I-XVII (1836-1864) in a separate volume (ST 393, index).
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- 'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1, 1a:1b, 2:16, 1:132, 1:18, 18a:18b, 19:206, 206a:206b, 207:256, 256a:256b, 257:340, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- 'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1, 1a:1b, 2:16, 1:132, 1:18, 18a:18b, 19:206, 206a:206b, 207:256, 256a:256b, 257:340, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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