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Remarkable Hot Wind in Purnea/i. 



[Feb. 



3. IV hat did the Thermometer 



rise to in the house or outside dur- 

 ing the hot wind ? 



4. What ivas the appearance of 

 the sky and clouds ; was there 

 any red or other coloured appear- 

 ance about them ? 



5. Were delicate persons or ani- 

 mals affected while it lasted ? 



6. You state eight miles about 

 east and west as the length of the 

 mischief but what was the breadth 

 of this strip on an average, and of 

 its broadest and narrowest parts 

 in yards, and what the exact direc- 

 tion ? 



7. Was the wind the same way 

 on the north and south sides of the 

 track, or was it different, i. e. east 

 on one side and west on the other, 

 as with the common dust Whirl- 

 winds ? If differing, please to note 

 as exactly as possible how it ivas 

 on each side, and if any means 

 exist, how it was in the middle. 

 This may be determined by trifling 

 things, such as branches of parti- 

 cular trees or shrubs carried for- 

 ward or backward, fyc. 



8. Did the blast lift thirys at 

 all? 



A. I did not myself observe, but 

 am told between 98° and 100° in 

 the house. 



A. Very red and dark during 

 the time that the hot blast lasted. 



A. Some villages complained 

 that they could not have endured 

 the heat for any length of time. 



A. The hot blast was not con- 

 fined to a narrow strip, but extend- 

 ed from north to south at least 15 

 miles ; that is, from the banks of 

 the Ganges inland. The injury 

 done to the strip of indigo plant 

 was undoubtedly owing to the in- 

 flammable nature of the colouring 

 matter in the indigo plant, and to 

 a chemical combination and decom- 

 position. 



A. Same way. 





A. It tore up a number of trees 

 (some of them very large ones) 

 by the roots and broke off bodily 

 posts built into pucka work. 



