Miscellaneous Intelligence. 295 
April, 1822, at Bangalore, a hail-storm killed many cattle, the hail- 
stones being represented by the natives as large as pumpkins. Three 
days after the storm the gentleman who gives an account of it, says, 
“I went to the spot and found the carcases of twenty-seven bullocks 
lacerated by hailstones; also dead birds. In a tank 300 yards in cir- 
cumference, half of the surface was covered with floating masses of 
hailstones which had been carried down the ravines two days before ; 
some of the masses were five and a half inches in thickness; the hail- 
stones were angular and oval, and some measured three inches in 
diameter.”** 
. At Kamptee, on the 8d of June, 1823, an officer writes, “ the hail- 
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pigeons’ egos. Men, animals and birds were killed; in the village of 
auda alone, six. persons were killed and seven others dangerously 
bruised. ; 
At Calcutta, on the 20th of April, 1829, the editor of the Bengal 
Chronicle says, “one of the hailstones brought to us was larger than a 
uck’s egg ;” many of them were angular fragments of ice, and seve- 
ral natives were killed 
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in the neighborhood. At Alhahabad, on the 5th of May, 1833, a hail- 
stone weighed 62 ounces troy, and measured ten inches in circumfer- 
ence. At Chunar, on the same day, the gentleman writes, ** blocks of 
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Stone in the bazaar weighed two pounds.” On the 16th of March, 
l Raneegunge, a gentleman traveling in a palkee, writes, “ 
palkee top yesterday was broke through in three places vs smi dit 
ference, and ‘another weighed eleven ounces. At Benares, in Fe 
ary, 1836, some of the masses of ice weighed two pounds. At Secur 
derbad, on the 30th of March, 1837, some of the hailstones were two 
* This the third after the fall, in the scorching month of April. 
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