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Rungpoor, Upper Assam from Mr. J. Owen, Assistant Assam 

 Company. 



Situated on one of the Naga Hills, East of Jaipoor, Upper Assam, 

 and distant 12 or 14 miles, at an elevation of nearly 1500 feet above 

 the level of the sea, observed 

 June 1st. Hot sultry day, slight S. S. W. breeze. 

 „ 2d. Rain from 6 a. m. to noon ; wind throughout variable. 

 „ 3d. Hot sultry day. Slight S. S. W. breezes. 

 „ 4th. Very hot day, wind variable. 

 „ 5th. Ditto ditto, 



„ 6th. Rain at noon. Fresh breeze from the Southward and 

 Westward. J. OWEN. 



Darjeeling. Latitude 27° 7 N. Longitude 88° 21' E. from Dr. Camp- 

 bell, Resident. N. B. — Elevation about 7,000 feet. 



" I beg leave to furnish the following particulars from memory, of the 

 state of the weather at this place during the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. 

 About midnight of the 2nd, it commenced blowing strong gusts from 

 the N. W., and continued to do so all day of the 3rd, accompanied by 

 showers. On the 4th, we had stormy weather and rain, the wind 

 blowing from the S. E., and the weather continued unchanged during 

 the whole of the 5th ; although the wind was strong throughout the 

 greater part of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, it did not amount to a storm, at 

 least it was not such a storm as we experienced here on the 4th and 

 5th of May 1840." 



Mozuffurpore in Tirhoot Lat. 26° 8' N. Long. 85° 31' E. 



A memorandum from my friend, Mr. Samuells, Magistrate of 

 Tirhoot, says, 



" After much inquiry, I cannot learn that there is any person in the 

 district who keeps a meteorological register, or indeed any memoranda 

 of the weather. My recollection, however, of the state of the weather 

 at the time of your great storm, agrees precisely with that of the Doctor, 

 and who moreover tells me, that he has invariably remarked the same 

 appearances in the weather here during the May and October gales 

 in the Bay of Bengal. The weather, according to our recollection, was 



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