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my wife who was with me, that the weather was unusually warm, 

 cloudy and threatening heavy rain : she called out to me about half 

 past 9, that it thundered, and we had heavy rain on the road from half 

 past 8 p. m. to 2 a. m. 



It did not rain at B during the Earthquake, but it did so the 



preceding afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock, and the weather all day had 

 been sultry ; the same was experienced in Calcutta. 



Mr. 's Pundit arrived at B at 10 a. m. on Saturday the 



12th. He was in a boat in the Soonderbuns, and stated that the 

 waters were much agitated, and his boat was tossed about as if by 

 waves in a squall of wind." 



The Editor of the Englishman appends to the above the following 

 note : — 



" We learn from another quarter, that the shock of the Earthquake 

 was severely felt on board the Agincourt, about fifty miles South-east 

 of the Floating Light at 9h. 30m. a. m." 



At Acra on the bank of the Hooghly, about five or six miles be- 

 low Calcutta, the shock seems to have been very severe. The house 

 of Mr. Greenfield there is represented as having been rent from top 

 to bottom in twenty different places. He states, "it was so severe 

 that the doors rattled so that you could not hear yourself speak, and 

 the mortar from one end of the house to the other was flying down in 

 handfulls. We had four shocks, three first and one about a quarter of 

 an hour afterwards : empty bottles were broken at the mill, and the pigs 

 and fowls, ducks, geese, dogs and horses made a most hideous noise. A 

 little more and all would have been down, as the beams began to start." 



At Pubnah (lat. 24° 32' N. long. 89° 12' E.) the shock was experienc- 

 ed at 9h. 47m. Calcutta time. Another slight shock occurred at lOh. 

 30m. C. T. The direction here was from S. W. Two indigo boiler 

 chimneys and that of a rum distillery were thrown down, and the banks 

 of the river in front of the distillery are said to have been fissured. 

 The correspondent of the Englishman, however, who gives these details 

 of the effects of the shock, is so remarkably facetious, that suspicions 

 of exaggeration are excited. 



At Barrisaul (lat. 22° 45' N. long 90° 1 1' E.) the shock appears to 

 have been felt at very nearly the same time as at Calcutta, the period 

 being 9h. 38m. 12s. C. T. 



