'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎15] (118/496)

“ not been seen at this season of the year by the oldest inhabitant of
“ the Hills.”
At Poona, the first signs of an approaching gale were remarked.
The forenoon was calm, but a low stratified haze was spread over the
sky, and, as the wind gradually set in from East to E.S.E., it deep
ened into a heavy dark canopy of clouds. The refracted rays of
the setting sun, as they struggled through the opening among the
heavy masses of suspended vapours, threw a wild, lurid, and almost
portentous, glare over the sky and country, such as I have always
seen to precede a hurricane at Mauritius.
At Bombay, the gale was setting in and veering from S.E. to
N.E., with a force of two or three pounds.
On the 19^, the vortex having passed over the Buckinghamshire,
on the afternoon of the 18th had advanced as far as Butnagherry^
where it appears to have developed its unabated force. At that place
it is said to have been a “ most dreadful hurricane,” the wind blow
ing at E.N.E, to N.N.W., “during which time the wind was fear-
“ fully violent, bearing everything before it,—several houses, trees, &c. ?
“ being blown to atoms.” “ After the winds had blown most furious-
“ ly from the abovementioned points for four hours continuously, it
“ commenced blowing from S.W., when the clouds were brought up
“in fearful succession from the sea. The rain poured down in
“torrents. The hurricane assumed the very acme of its violence
“ between the hours of 9 and 11 o’clock on Monday (19th).”
At Saigur and Razpoor rivers, the wind was East and E.S.E. At
Severndroog, a strong IST.E. breeze prevailed, and during the day
increased to a gale. At Bombay, it was blowing between E. by 1ST.
and 1ST.E., with a force of four or five pounds;—the sky overcast^
and it was raining steadily.
At Poona, the weather had all the appearance of a passing hurricane,
such, at least, as usually occurs in countries subject to them. The
force of the wind at East and S.E. would only have reduced a vessel
to close-reefed topsails ; but the dark gloomy sky, fierce gusts, and in
cessant rain, borne horizontally along, and dense stratum of clouds rest
ing on the earth, were all indications of the true nature of the gale.
I stated to several persons, that if ever a typhoon visited the Dekkan
the weather shewed the passage of one near us. At Belgaum, and