128 Destructive Storm in the Maimansigh District. [July, 



Letters were read : — 



1. From Mr. H. B. Martin, Madhipura, to Mr. H. Blochmann, re- 

 garding Buddhist Shrines — 



" There are only two shrines in the Sub-Division which are known to 

 have heen made by Buddhists and no other, one is " Jamra Chandithan," or 

 Barontpur, from which I sent the inscription, and " Bahta Chandithan" 

 or, Bhawanipur Rahta, about 25 miles apart ; the latter has no inscription as 

 far as one can learn. 



2. From the Government of Bengal, forwarding for the information 

 of the Society, the following report from Mr. Pratt, Joint-Magistrate of 

 Maimansingh, on the recent destructive storm in the neighbourhood of 

 Ishwarganj police station. 



Extract of a letter from Me. Pratt, Joint-Magistrate, to tlie Magistrate of 

 Mymensingh, No. X, dated QtJi April, 1875. 

 Para. 1. — I have the honor to furnish the required report regarding the 

 recent destructive storm in the neighbourhood of Ishwargunge police station. 



2. I visited the scene on the 31st ultimo, and rode along the route 

 which was taken by the storm. The direction was from north-west to 

 south-east, beginning at Betandar and taking the following villages in suc- 

 cession : — Salnakanda, Deopara, Bashbag, Danibiri, Chota Tarakandi, 

 Bara Tarakandi, Kalalia, Bagarita (including the hamlet of Noapara), 

 Boerati, Bisunpur, Kalandar, Kulla, Khalbowla, Moheshpur, Sarsha, Panan, 

 and Moheshatal. 



3. Judging from the accounts given by the villagers, as well as the 

 manner in which the trees had fallen (most lying to the south-east and the 

 rest in all kinds of directions), it would appear that the storm was ushered 

 in hy a furious blast from north-west to south-east, which, after a few 

 minutes, veered round from north to south, and, whirling round, at length 

 passed on to the next village to the south-east. The havoc was done over 

 an area of only about half a mile in breadth and extending to 5 or 6 miles 

 in length, so that the storm-current could not have been one huge whirl- 

 wind, but rather a succession of smaller gyrations of air. 



4. Tbe real fury of the storm lasted only about a quarter of an hour, 

 and it seems to have expended itself at Moheshatal in pergunnah Nusiru- 

 jeal. Everything fell before the blast, a clean sweep being made of all the 

 houses within the line, and thus it happened that while half a village 

 remained intact, the other half was razed to the ground. 



3. From the Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Financial De- 

 partment) forwarding the following correspondence regarding samples of dye 

 stuffs of Indian growth and of tusser and other silks, and enquiring whether 

 the Society can favour the Government with the information called for. 



