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The record is made up of 1 volume (451 pages). It was created in 1863-1864. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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NEAR THE MAURITIUS,
207
when the wind fell light and veered for a short time to SE., I felt
sure it was passing to the Eastward of us. However, before I could
quite make up my mind, it veered again to East, and blew as hard
as ever for a short time, veering to E. by N. and at Sh. to ENEthe
glass falling rapidly since midnight.
I, now feeling certain the centre was passing to the Westward of us,
hove to at 8 A. a. m. on the port tack, to allow it to pass, being in the
‘'left hand semicircle.” (Colonel Reid’s Rules.) At 9h. 30m. the
clouds began to break, and the sun became visible, at times, showing
the scud rushing across it with great rapidity, the Barometer at this
time reached its greatest depression and began to rise. At 10 the
wind had veered to NE., by E. and we regularly emerged from the
edge of the storm into sunshine, so rapidly did it clear. Broken mass
es of clouds were now flying in different directions, and the body of
the storm was distinctly visible as a wall of dark cloud apparently close
to the Westward of us.
The weather rapidly improved, and at noon moderated to a fresh
breeze at North to NNW.
A heavy confused sea, as might be expected, was experienced both
on this day and the following.
The appearance of the bank of clouds containing the storm at sunset,
when we had run 50 miles to Eastward, and the storm perhaps as much
more to the Westward, was extraordinary and instructive, for a ship
going the opposite way, and in danger of overtaking the storm.
The lightning seen on the Eastern horizon during the night of the
30th was the only electrical display seen.
The accompanying plan shows the ship’s position on each day at
noon, also the probable track of the cyclone as I estimated it:—
At the Mauritius we found no bad weather had occurred at that
date, only slight depression of the barometer. The storm would there
fore appear to have been local, or to have originated Southward of the
Mauritius.

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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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1 volume (451 pages)
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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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ST 393, vol 17
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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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