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that date no observation appears until 2 p. M. on the 18th, when she
was in the vortex of the hurricane. The Sympiesometer had then
fallen to 28*80, and it appears to have remained at that height during
the calm that succeeded, and until it had passed over her. At 6 a. m
on the 17th, the Victorias Log shows the height of the Barometer to
have been 29*83 at midnight; when she was nearest the centre of the
storm it fell to 29*70 ; and at noon next day, when it had passed her,
rose to 29 90. At midnight on the 16th, the Barometer on board the
Mermaid was 29*84, and continued constantly falling until noon of
the 18th, at the time she was nearest the vortex of the hurricane, when
it stood at 29*34: two hours after, it rose to 29*38, but no further
observations are recorded.
During the greatest violence of the hurricane, the quantity of
electric matter in the atmosphere appears to have been very great.
On the morning of the 17th, the lightning darted incessantly close
around the Sesostris in intensely vivid flashes, and the rain poured
down in torrents. The other vessels also experienced similar weather,
Probable position of the Cleopatra Steam Frigate during the
hurricane :—.
The log books of the vessels proceeding down the Coast supply
information of the state of the winds and weather previous to the
hurricane, and a tolerably accurate judgment may therefore be formed
of the position of the Cleopatra when she first encountered it. On
the morning of the 16th of April, the Faize Rubahny was below
Cannanore, and had the wind strong from S.E., with a high sea. The
Victoria steam vessel, at noon of the same day, was between Manga
lore and Mount Delly, and had the wind fresh from the Southward and
S.E., with a heavy swell, and her speed was reduced to 4|- knots, and
after sunset to 3 knots per hour. On the morning of the 17th, the
Mermaid was off Mount Delly under double reefed topsails, the wind
owing from S.E., and at 8 A. m. was lying to under close reefed
maintopsails in a strong and rapidly increasing gale.
The Cleopati a left Bombay on the afternoon of the 14th, passing
t e outer light vessel at three o clock, and, after making a sufficient of
fing, would naturally steer along the coast, at a distance of 25 or 30
from it, so as to pass between the Easternmost island of the
Laccadive group and the main in mid-channel. With the assis-
ce of her sails, I do not think her average speed could have ex
7 o knots pei hour, or that she had run more than 338 miles up