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and became discoloured, unpleasant, and useless; occasioned, 

 as supposed by the natives, by a volcanic eruption in the 

 interior: pestilence feared in consequence. {Canton Reg.) 

 Drought at Cape of Good Hope, continued from August, 

 1832. Influenza in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, &c. — 4. Earth- 

 quake at Vicenza. — 10. Rain fell slightly (in midst of long- 

 continued drought) in Bengal. — 12. to 19. Frosts in England. 

 — 14. Dreadful hail storms in Lancashire. — 17. Hurricane 

 in lat. 28° s., long. 52° e. — 25. Earthquake (10^ A.M.) at 

 Juasco, Coquimbo, and Copiapo, South America. 



N. B. At the end of the month (date not precisely known), 

 earthquake at George Town, Demerara, probably connected 

 with that of 25th. At the end of the month, also, rain began 

 to fall at Sydney, New South Wales. 



May 2. Drought in Prussia. Earthquake in Trinidad. — 

 3. Sudden and violent thaw in Lake Ladoga. — 10. to 14. Ships 

 entangled in ice in the Atlantic. — 17. Brilliant aurora dis- 

 turbing the needle in Pennsylvania. — 21. Hurricane at Cal- 

 cutta from N. e., destroying thousands of lives, and vast quan- 

 tities of produce. Same day, hurricane at New Orleans, from 

 n.w. (See 19th Feb.) 



N. B. Throughout this month, drought in England, Hol- 

 land, &c. During this month (date not known), hurricane in 

 Nova Zembla, for three days, from the north ; on the evidence 

 of Lieut. Pachtussoff, Russian navy. 



June 6. Rain in Jamaica, very heavy. — 11, 12. Hurricane 

 all over England, France, &c. Graham Island in eruption. 

 Cholera in Mexico. — Up to 1 2th. Heavy rains and n.e. winds 

 in Bengal, commenced April 10. — 19. Earthquake at St. 

 Kitts. — Up to 25. Cholera in New Orleans and United 

 States : mortality 80 per diem. 



July 1. Unusual hailstorms, ruining crops, &c, in the pro- 

 vince of Liege. — 2. Rains commenced in Hungary, lasting 

 thirty-seven days. — 4. Aerolites with hail fell in Russia. — 

 10. Aurora affecting the needle, accompanied by change of 

 wind and dryness of the air in Philadelphia, as on May 17. — 

 12, 13. Graham Island again above the sea. — 13. Earth- 

 quake in Staffordshire, Notts, &c. — 14. Thunder storms of 

 a frightful character in the sphere of action of the earthquake 

 of the 13th. — 15. Epidemic in London. — 17. Cholera at 

 Deptford and Sunderland. — 21. Influenza at Portsoy, af- 

 fecting cattle as well as man. Meteor (9 p.m., moon setting) 

 from to e. to w. Aurora in the north ; cloudy to south. 

 (Parkstone, Dorset.) — '22. Rain from south all day, with 

 wind, consequence of aurora of 21st. — 23. Cholera in London. 

 — 25. ,Slight fall of rain at Madras, in the midst of drought. 



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