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Hast that the stretch
f
water
repre
sented: by
the
well
and
that the
i pide ass 0159 Cosmed
under its influence
gets comparatively rough. But from.
protection .
this point of
the
compass
the
approach the Praya ball-
in
a disce.
tion already
so oblique.
that their bot.
tering power is considerably curtailed.
1
!
A circumstance no
less favourable
is that the only formidable storms
here. abc
gegnatory
and that
the wind does not blow for
POCO
than two
three
consecutive ....
hours from the
consequently after.
from the north East the direction
from which the
bulnerable.
rast
from
sea wall is most sea.
the wind shifts to the
which
there is pro-
quarter; brief period
of
The recorded experience of the past
teaches that lefphoons
25
years
wohered in by horth Westerly
northerly quets, increasing
hours to
are
A
few
gate between horth and
North Cast deadily
it veers.
asing
towards the cast at
which point the stringth of thes hurricane culminates gradually diminishing towards the
South
Rast and finally deping away
the South.
There are
instances
of gales having attained their
strength before peaching the
mart
Cast, and these in respect
at
of point culmination would be the most
Account
unfortunate
of
for
the Phaya wall,
毋
the
long reach of
har.
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