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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal August 1839

1840

The Mech people inhabit the forest portion of the Turai stretching along the base of the mountains from the Burrumpootur to the Konki river which leaves the Nipal mountains about 20 miles to the west of the Mechi River. [...] as our present knowledge extends and referring to the state of the Gale in the Southern part of the Bay we find that the impulse which may be said to begin to be violently felt on the 31st by the Susan did not reach Chuprah till the 4th when it produced an Easterly Gale terminating on the ith shifting to the South-West and West on the 8th ; the counter-gale and eddies if we may so call the [...] II a great parabola one branch of which stretches towards Ceylon and the other up to the valley of the Ganges towards Agra the vortex being towards Arracan and the axis in the line of the supposed track of the Hurricane; it will be found that the focus of such a parabola falls in about lat. [...] 'rite rmarks on the warmth of the weather in the logs and the thermometrical It may be worth remarking that while this hurricane seems to have travelled from East to West or nearly parallel to the direction of the Magnetic Equator as laid down by Biot those of the West Indies seem for the most part to come from the South Easward which is also there the direction of the plane of the Magnet [...] It appears also that it turns when it occurs on the North side of the Equator from the East or the right band by the North towards the West; or contrary to the hands of a watch ; and in the Southern hemisphere that its motion is the contrary way or with the hands of a watch.
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Pages
77
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Art I.—Note on the Mcchis together with a small Vocabulary of the Language. By A. Campbell Esq. Assistant to the Resident Nipal in charge of Darjeeling
623-631 Acting Secretaries view
Art II.—Researches on the Gale and hurricane in the Bay of Bengal on the 3rd 4th and 5th of June 1839; with reference to the Theory of the Law of Storms in India. By Henry Piddinoton
631-650 Acting Secretaries view
Art III.—Extracts from Mr. M ‘Clclland’s paper on Indian Cyprinidoe.As. Res. Vol. xix. Part II
650-671 Acting Secretaries view
Art IV.—Account of a Journey from Sumbalpur to Mednipur through the Forests of Orissa. By Liuet M. Kittoe
671-681 Acting Secretaries view
Art V.—Note on a pillar found in the Ganges near Pubna and of another at Kurra near Allahabad.—By Lieut.M.Kittoe
681-683 Acting Secretaries view
Art VI.—Note by Messrs. Jessop & Co. of Calculla on the smelling of the Iron Ore of the district of Burdwan
683-684 Acting Secretaries view
Art VII.—Note on the habits of the Coel and on the discovery of Isinglass.—By Major Davidson
684-685 Acting Secretaries view
Art VIII.—Note on the Scopes of Xanthorhæa and Fossil Stems of Lepidodendra.—By Lieut. N. Vicary
685-686 Acting Secretaries view
Art VIII.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
687-691 Acting Secretaries view

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