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dously from S. S. W., and nearly due West ; towards evening the gale 

 subsided. 



The effects are most dreadful, some of the concerns hereabout losing 

 all hope of one-half of what they expected, others one- third, &c. To 

 add to our disasters, the river took a most unexpected and sudden rise 

 of some 4 J to 5 feet in as many days. 

 Banks of the Jumna, June 18, 1842. 



P. S. — I hear that the gale was much less severe, higher up the river, 

 and towards Mymensing scarcely felt. 



From Kissennuggur I have obtained, by the attention of Dr. 

 Fuller, Civil Surgeon, a report from its immediate neighbourhood, 

 and another was published in the Newspaper, which I give after that 

 of Dr. Fuller's friend. 



The enclosed is the only tolerable account I can obtain for you, of the 

 late Storm. 



2nd June. — At Kissennuggur, we had light rain, and the weather 

 very cloudy; towards evening the wind rose and continued the whole 

 of Friday (3rd) from the N. E. with wind and drizzling rain day and 

 night. 



4th June. — Wind round to the Southward, and the storm less furi- 

 ous, drizzling continuing. No Calcutta dak in. 



5th June.— Weather still very unfavorable, rain and wind all day, 

 and no Calcutta dak in ; on the morning of the 6th, the wind had 

 ceased, but there was rain and very dark clouds, towards evening it 

 became fine. There is not a barometer at the station, consequently 

 I fear, that these rough notes will be of little use to you. 



C. W. FULLER. 



This Report is from a Factory, a short distance from Kissennuggur. 

 I did not observe the times, when the wind varied as it appeared 

 to do every ten or fifteen minutes. The storm commenced on the 

 night of the 4th June, about ten or eleven o'clock, apparently 

 from N. N. W., in the course of the morning; it was S. W. by three or 



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