judging from the records and uoscriptions of tlie fire, I ain inclined to think, 

 tliat dxiring raofet of the time of the fire it must liave l)een more than GO miles 

 per hour. It travelled towards the south-east, and in less than 24 hours, it 

 reached the sea in the eastern side of the river; next day, while this fire was still 

 doing its work of destruction, another hroke out at a point, uhout half a mile 

 south-west of the origin of the first. The wind was still blowing with 

 unabated fury, and after reducing the palace of the Shogun in the castle, and a 

 countless number of magnificent liouses belonging to the Feudal princes, to 

 ashes, the fire ceased, having reached the sea. But before this terminated, 

 another had begun about a mile south of the origin of the second, and it also 

 reached the sea in the south-eastern part of the city. The number of persons 

 killed by being burnt to death, drowned, crushed, etc. seems to have been some- 

 thing enormous; old chroniclers delight in putting down this number as 107,046., 

 and whatever doubt we may luue as to the numerical accuracy of this statement, 

 it is certain that the number was great : the bodies being so numerous that 

 identification was impossible, and all were carried to a large excavation made 

 near the Ivio-goku-bridge, and buried there. The temple Yeko-in, where the 

 great wrestling matches are now held twioii a year, was built then near the grave 

 of so many unfortunates for the benefit of their souls. The second group of fires 

 tdolc jilace on March 13, 1608 originating in the western partof the city, and termi- 

 nating in the sea. While tlie lire was still burning another broke out, although 

 the latter was small the lengtli not being greater than 21 cJio. Three days 

 afterward, a lire hrohe (lut in the western part of the city, and destroyed a 

 district of the rity 43 clw lotig. an I two days after the latter, another occurred, 

 Sil that in this group, although each one is not very extensive, the four together 

 covered a great area. The tliird great fire took place on Oct. 9 1698 at about 

 10 in the morning, near the present site of the railway station and extended to 

 the northern limit of the city. The fourth began in the south-western part and 

 nearly reached the northern liuiit of the city ; the fifth has been referred to above, 

 and the sixth originating near the southern limit of the city reached the north 

 east limit, taking place at about noon Apr. 22, 1806. This destroyed the best 

 half of the city, and it is said, that more than 12 hundred people were killed in 

 one way and another. Of these six, it must be noticed that three of them are 

 from the NW and the other three are from the S and SW. In fact, these seem 

 to be the directions to which the high winds are confined (by a high wind is here 

 meant a wind whose velocity is greater than 20 miles per hour) and consequently 

 the directions of great fires. 



In Table B, all the fires, that I have liecn able to study, 93 in all, occurring 

 during the last two hundred twenty four years, and each not shorter than 15 cho, 

 are tabulated with reference to time and direction, so as to show the number of 

 fires in a given direction in dilferent months. In table C, will be found the total 

 STun of the lengths of fires that occurred in different months from various direc- 

 tions. Lookins: at those tables, with reference to time we notice a remarkable 



