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From the above facts I think the following inferences may be drawn.
1st. That the storm was rotatory, and turned from right to left,
looking towards the North.
2nd. That it pursued a course along the Malabar Coast from the
parallel of Caj^e Comorin to Vingorla, in a slightly-curved line, in
clining towards the land, the general direction of which w r as about
N.J W.
3rd. That at the Southern extremity of the coast it extended over
a circle of about 400 miles in diameter, which contracted gradually
to a diameter of 225 miles as it moved to the Northward.
4th. That between Cape Comorin and Calicut, it moved with an
average velocity of thirteen miles per hour ; and from the latter place
to Vingorla, of eight miles per hour.
5th. That it increased in strength, and moved with less velocity, as
it contracted, and that its greatest violence was experienced on the
Malabar Coast, between Calicut and Vingorla, along a track about 150
miles in breadth.
6th. That, as far as can be ascertained, it appears to have approach
ed the Continent of India from the E.S.E.
It would be highly interesting to trace the farther progress of this
storm to the Northward, for, although its extreme violence appears to
have been expended at or near Vingorla, there is some reason to be
lieve that it still pursued its course along the land, and eventually
reached the shores of Cutch. From the scanty information I have
been able to obtain, the same rotatory movement of the atmosphere
seems to have prevailed along the Coast for several days after, but
without that degree of intensity that would prove destructive, for I
find that at Bombay the wind veered between the 16th and 19th of
April, from N.E. to South, and was accompanied on the 19th with
considerable magnetic disturbance ; and that, on the 24th, the Taptee,
surveying vessel, experienced a fresh gale on the Cutch Coast, which
veered round from S.S.E. to S.W., accompanied with a very threaten-
ing appearance to the South, and preceded several days by a heavy
S.W. swell.
The Log Books of the vessels do not supply much information re
lative to the variations in the Barometer. In the Buckinghamshire s
Log, the height of the Barometer and Sympiesometer is given at noon
on the 15th, when the former was 29*67, and the latter 29*72. From