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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1854

1855

S. E. 10 A. M. looks suspicious to the E. S. E. and South got under weigh with all possible speed and stood to the S. W. current setting to the north ; noon wind and sea icreasing. [...] At noon the wind N. N. E. with heavy squalls and rain at intervals ; at 4 P. M. I took great notice of the scuds from the Northward and Westward and a lower scud from the S. E. crossing each other with a haze and a red tinge. [...] Round the horizon was a circle of haze and the breeze continued to freshen till it increased to a strong gale and veered from N. N. E. to S. E. with heavy passing showers till 3 in the morning of the 22nd with a falling Barometer all the time; but at times with a clear sky over head and a thick haze round the horizon. [...] As soon as the masts were gone and the ship came head to wind it rushed in at the doors of the poop and took the deck of it clean over the taffrail leaving the sea to finish which it soon accomplished; sweeping away all our instruments charts and other effects. [...] It appeared by the evidence on a trial in the Marine Court which arose out of the loss of this vessel that as early as the 19th of October the set to the westward at the Light vessel which had begun in the niglit bet%%ren 3 Y 2516 A Twenty-third Memoir on the Law of Storms.
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Pages
141
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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505-549 The Secretaries view
Some Remarks on the Origin of the Afghán People and Dialect and on the Connexion of the Pushto Language with the Zend and Pehlavi and the Hebrew.—By Lieut. H.G. Raverty 3rd Regt. Bombay N.I. Asst. Commissioner Múltún
550-588 The Secretaries view
Indian Oology—Notes on the Nidification of Some of the Commoner Birds of the Salt Range with a Few Additional from Kashmir by W. Theobald Junr. Esq
589-603 The Secretaries view
On the Peculiarities of the Gúthá Dialect.—By Bábu Rájendralál Mittra
604-614 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for September 1854
615-622 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations Taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the Month of May 1854
57-72 The Secretaries view
Meteorological Register Kept at the Office of the Secretary to Government N.W.P. Agra for the Month of August 1854
73-75 The Secretaries view
Meteorological Remarks and Tables Commencing 1st May 1854 at the Residency Lucknow
76-79 The Secretaries view

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