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— 15. Famine and drought at Ellore ; women eating their 

 children for food. — 17. Snow in Caithness. Aurora (9j p.m.). 



— 18. Rain, s.w. Aurora, %\ P. M. Singular light at sunset this 

 evening. Earthquake at Chichester. — 26. Meteor seen by 

 late Prof. Farish at Cambridge. Furious gales commenced 

 at Odessa : lasted ten days. 



N. B. Throughout. Drought in Lincolnshire, Dorset- 

 shire, Gloucestershire. Drought in Cape de Verd Islands : 

 20,000 deaths in consequence. Drought in Isle of Wight. 

 Wells dry since August. 



October 3. Cholera at Whitby. — 4. Earthquakes at Ga- 

 rakpoor and Allahabad, Monghyr, Calcutta, Chittagong, and 

 Jubalpoor, and in Nepal. Earthquake in Auvergne. — 5. 

 Hurricane in lat. 56° s., 23° e. — 7. Epidemic at Malaga. 



— 9. Tempestuous weather in the Mauritius. — 11. Drought 

 in Russia, with scarcity. Gale, &c, off Isle of Amsterdam 

 (wrecks). — 12. Gales and inundations in Canada. Splendid 

 aurora. Tremendous gales at Madeira, Quebec, &c. — 12 

 or 13. Earthquake at Antigua. — 13, 14. Aurora all night. 

 (See Parry's third Voyage, p. 172.) — 15. Chain pier at 

 Brighton struck by lightning. — 17. Spots on the sun. — 18. 

 Earthquake, same range as that of 4th in India. — 21. Aurora, 

 followed by heavy gale. — 22. to 30. Ice in the Atlantic. — 

 22. Violent gust of wind throughout Cornwall. — 24. or 26. 

 Aberration of tides at Leith. — 26. Hurricane off Candia, 

 Scilly Isles, and Montreal. Earthquake at Allahabad. 



N. B. Arica and Teeno again desolated by earthquakes 

 this month. During October. Drought and scarcity in the 

 Crimea, South Russia, &c. Cholera in Mexico : 22,000 

 deaths in thirty-five days. Drought in Dominica, Trinidad, 

 St. Lucie, &c. Coffee plants without leaves. Drought at 

 Bahia and Rio Janeiro. 



November 1. Dreadful storm in the Clyde. Inundation at 

 Embden. — 2. Drought oppressive in Demerara. Tre- 

 mendous tides at London, Ipswich, Liverpool, accompanied 

 by furious gales. — 3. Hurricane off the Norfolk coast. — 

 8. Earthquakes in Nepal. — 12. Fog in south of England. — 

 13. Earthquake at Chichester, 4 a. M. Shower of meteors all 

 over states of North America. — 14. Dreadful cold in Ca- 

 nada ; crops cutoff; wild geese arrived in Dorsetshire. — 16. 

 Earthquake at Khatmandhu. First woodcocks seen in south of 

 England. — 18. Cholera at Lucknow. Fog all over France. 

 Gale off Cape de Gatte. — 21. to 28. Gales, with lightning, 

 from s.w. — Up to 21. Drought at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 Rains and floods at Rio Grande, Brazil. Rains at Hayti 

 prevented crops being got in. — 24. Vesuvius in eruption. 



