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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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