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Account of the Hurricane, &c.
[May,


Statement exhibiting the number of lives computed to have been lost, the names of the villages through which the hurricane passed, and other particulars.

Names of the Thanahs. Names of the villages. Manicktula, .. Ditto, Anundpore, . . Soorah, Pagladanga, . . Mr. Prinsep's saltworks,.. Botchtullah, . . Chowhata, ... Butgotchee, .. Madoordooah, . Sambandal, . . Kularabad, .. Nazeerabad, .. Anundpore, .. Jugdeepotha,. . Hossainpore,.. Autghurah, . . Ranabatooah, Dhaloo, Pauchpotah, .. Bykuntpore, .. Kodaleah, .... Sreekhundpore, Kaderout, .... Sanorpore,.. .. Khord Raj pore, Chingreepotah, Hurreeuobhee, 1 VI CO ►1 J co % a a 1 MM- Revolving, ditto, .... ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, .... ditto ditto, ditto, .... ditto, ditto, ditto ditto, .... ditto, .... ditto, .... ditto, ditto, .... ditto ditto, ditto, ditto, .... ditto, .... ditto, ,. . 1 3 ] 6 33 224 13 21 91 21 49 41 53 5 34 13 17 58 150 157 79 58 45 46 31 1239 105 26 5 3 6 33 13 6 12 4 2 215 Ditto, Ditto, ........ Pautturghotta, Ditto, Ditto Ditto, Ditto, Ditto Ditto, Ditto, CO b Ditto,... Ditto, O Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Tauzeeraut, .. Ditto, Ramnagore, .. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto,

REMARKS.

The extreme length of storm, properly speaking, is 16 miles, the effects from Kawrapokur to Anundpore (4 miles) being slightly felt.

Postscript. — There may be thought to be so much of the marvellous in the foregoing account, however authentic and worthy of confidence, that we are almost afraid to add to it the annexed extract from a Madras newspaper. It should have been authenticated by the name or names of the Europeans who witnessed it. The hail may have been drifted together after its fall, and consolidated by its being colder than ice and thus cemented by freezing the moisture precipitated on it from the atmosphere.