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The only intelligence which has reached us yet, is that it was severely felt 

 at Chusan and also at Ningpo, at the former place causing, through a tre- 

 mendous inundation, the loss of many lives and much property ; and that the 

 country inland from this, has been deluged as far as Nanking, and no 

 doubt the whole extent of the Yangtzee river ; at Woosung several ships lost, 

 (through several large junks driving foul of them,) masts, bowsprits, anchors, 

 and boats, and several junks were driven on shore. 



The land about Chusan is bold and very high, and likewise all the Islands 

 forming that group and archipelago, and also the entrance to the Ningpo 

 river: the land hereabout, (with the exception of the Saddle Group in 

 30° 50' N. 122°4' E. which lies off the entrance of the Yangtzee Kiang, is all 

 a low flat for a great extent inland, there being only a few solitary hills be- 

 tween this and Nanking. 



Commander Hay's notes at Amoy are as follows, and when we 

 recollect that Amoy is about 440 miles S. S. W. from Shanghae, we 

 shall see that the Cyclone, coming up from the S. Eastward, was nearer 

 to Amoy at 8 a. m. on the 20th, than when its centre reached Shang- 

 hae at 2 p. m. on that day. 



" On 17th July an unusual fall took place in the Barometer, which reached its 

 lowest point at 8 a. m. on the 20th July, without any bad weather. On that 

 day the heat was very great, with clear weather ; I ascended Nantai Washan hill, 

 1728 feet high, a haze to seaward prevented an extended view, but the sea was 

 not much agitated. On the 21st the wind was strong and steady from N. E. 

 Heavy banks of clouds rose over the land from the W. S. W. to W. N. W.* 

 and about sunset an extraordinary broom-like indigo-coloured cloud shot up 

 behind them to an angle of about 35 from the zenith. To seaward a thick 

 haze and apparently strong breeze. 



22nd July, a heavy swell rolled into the harbour, and at sunset lightning to 

 the S. W. over the land. At 8 p. m. a strong breeze from E. N. E. veering to 

 the Northward, and to seaward heavy looking clouds, with incessant lightning 

 E. by S. Lightning gradually drawing to the Northward; 11 p. m. lightning 

 E. N. E. wind Northerly, 23rd at 8 a. M.vvind blowing fresh at West, havingcome 

 round gradually by the North during the night, and at 10 W. S. W. until 25th; 

 much rain and variable winds, but on the 24th Southerly breezes obtained as 

 before. On the morning of 23rd a dismasted junk came in, and the Zephyr 

 Schooner having been at Namoa with a very low Barometer supposed bad wea- 

 ther must have occurred. The harbour of Amoy is seldom visited by typhoons, 

 i. e. violent Cyclones, but there can be no doubt that their outer edge may occa- 

 sionally graze this place. 



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