Waterspouts in the Hughli ¹

Abstract

ON Tuesday, the 4th instant, a fine waterspout was projected from the level vapour-plane of a silvery-edged towering cumulus cloud—or, as our American cousins would terra it, a “thunder-head”—over the western side of Kulpee anchorage, and near the village of Jiggerkolly, which, by the aid of a good telescope, showed well the downrush on the inside of the tube, and its counterpart the whirling uprush on its outside, twisting and coiling round and round against the watch-hands (face upwards).