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wall at Shameen was washed away, and blocks of stone were driven 

 about as if tliey had been billets of wood ; houses in the city had also 

 been blown down, and trees rooted up ; the rice crops have suffered 

 severely ; and the total damage may be estimated in millions of dollars. 

 Mr Gaillard, an American Missionary, was killed by the falling in of 

 his house ; and the residences of the E-ev. Messrs. Bonney and Piercey 

 were thrown down, a large junk having been driven up against them. 

 At Whampoa the docks were all flooded, while the workshops attached 

 were unroofed and otherwise injured. From the China Mail, which 

 gives a long and graphic description of this disastrous visitation, we 

 extract the following : — ' The British brig Mcxicana capsized in Hall 

 and Co.'s dock, and lies on her beam ends ; the British ship Dewa 

 Gungadhur is lying on her side in Gow and Co.'s dock ; the British 

 steamer Antelope, in the Chinese dock at the corner of Junk River, has 

 her bow run up over the head of the dock, and her stern at an angle of 

 thirty degrees into it ; the British steamer Bombay Castle was washed off 

 the blocks in Couper's wooden dock, and was scuttled by her captain to 

 save her from being floated out of the dock ; the American ship 

 Washington is aground, blocking up the entrance to the Chinese dock 

 in Junk River ; the American ship Jacob Bell and British barque 

 Cannata are high on a mud flat, dry at low water — the latter 

 making water, and discharging her cargo ; the new British steamer 

 Wliampoa broke from her moorings and went ashore, but has since been 

 got off without injury. Several chops sunk, and five of the foreign 

 Customs' inspectors were drowned. Many junks went down with all 

 hands. Bamboo-town is entirely destroyed, the water having flooded it 

 to the depth of six feet, and swept off a great number of its inhabitants. 

 It is greatly to be feared that the disasters among the shipping outside 

 will prove something frightful, and that many vessels now anxiously ex- 

 pected have either been driven on the rocks and gone to pieces or have 

 foundered at sea. Already, it will have been observed, one dismasted 

 vessel, the Danish brig Hercules, has come in ; and more may be looked 

 for in the course of the next fortnight. The Iskamlershah is on shore in 

 the river, close to Tiger Island, a little above the Bogue.' One writer 

 says the city looks just as it did after the bombardment by Admiral 

 Seymour, and that there has not been such a typhoon since 1832. 



