104 Whirlwind in the Maimansingh District. [Juke, 



2. Both appear to have bean of exactly the same character. It is 

 roost fortunate that the damage done has, comparatively speaking, been so 

 slight. 



No. 562, dated Camp, Jamalpur, the 18th April, 1875. 

 From E. H. Pawsey, Esq., Officiating Magistrate of Maimansingh. 

 To The Commissioner of Circuit, Dacca Division. 

 I have the honor to forward herewith, for your information, a report 

 from Mr. Fasson, Assistant Magistrate of A'tiah, giving the details of the 

 ravages of a whirlwind in the neighbourhood of Nagarpur, and about 18 

 miles south-west of the sub-divisional head-quarters, on the evening of the 

 26th March. 



2. The loss of life was not so serious as in the storm near Ishwar- 

 ganj, reported to you in this office letter No. 524, dated 8th instant, nor 

 was the destruction of property anything like so extensive, but the violence 

 of the wind appears to have been irresistible in its limited course. 



No. 5, dated Tangail, the 8th April, 1875. 



From H. J. H. Fasson, Esq., c. s., Assistant Collector of J Ati ah. 



To The Collector of Maimansingh. 

 "With reference to your No. 485, dated 2nd instant, I have the honor 

 to submit the following account of the atmospheric disturbance which re- 

 sulted in the partial destruction of the villages of Uladah and Chanbari on 

 the 26th March, 1875. I visited and carefully examined the ravaged tract 

 myself and obtained the fullest information available from the villagers and 

 the injured persons in the dispensary. Their accounts were necessarily 

 fragmentary, confused and imperfect, but there is no doubt as to the general 

 character and course of the storm. 



2. It was simply, though on a large and tremendous scale, such a 

 swirling eddy in the hot sultry air as may often be observed on a hot day 

 catching up leaves and dust, whirling away over a field or so in a rapidly 

 developed swirling pillar of dust, and then subsiding and dissipating as it 

 had arisen. 



3. In this instance the duration of the whirlwind was probably less 

 than twenty minutes at the outside ; the breadth of its path just 250 yards ; 

 the length of its course from formation to dissipation a little over two miles. 

 Its course was almost exactly from south-west to north-east. The time of 

 its occurrence was just after dusk, or about an hour after sunset. The 

 cattle were in the cow-houses, the people for the most part busied in their 

 baris. 



4. Due west from Shakhairlia Khal the great river Jamuna flows in a 

 single stream some three miles wide, with the Pabna shore beyond. Look- 



