1848.] 



Remarkable Hot Wind in Purneah. 



A. Don't know. 



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9. Did it kill or hurt any ani- 

 mals, such as birds, snakes, $-c. 



10. How vjas the wind in the 

 damaged factories, and was this 

 done by the hot wind or a common 

 storm or squall? Please to get 

 the best description you can of the 

 destruction and especially if it was 

 occasioned by the hot blast, and if 

 this was considered as a whirlwind 

 or a strait-blowing stream like a 

 north-wester. 



1 1 . Was there any rain before, 

 during or after the blast. The 

 same of thunder and lightning ? 



12. What time may it have 

 taken to travel from one extremity 

 of the track to the other, i. e. at 

 what rate per hour did it move on, 

 by the best guess you can make ? 



13. Can you obtain any sort of 

 statement as to how it begun ? Did 

 it descend from above or how ? 



14. Was it of full size at the 

 beginning of the track ? 



15. Was the course wavy or a 

 straight line, and did it appear to 

 turn out of its way for any obsta- 

 cles ? 



16. Was there any perceptible 

 smell with it of any kind ? 



A. The damage done to the 

 buildings was by the force of the 

 wind. It did not appear to be a 

 whirlwind, in fact by all accounts, 

 it was not so, but a straight blow- 

 ing stream. 



A. A very few drops of rain fell 

 just before we felt the heat. No 

 thunder or lightning 



A. I have no idea as to the rate 

 of velocity. The storm lasted 

 about 20 minutes — the hot blast 

 was during about eight or ten mi- 

 nutes at the latter end of the storm. 



A. I have no idea. The first 

 impression was that there was a 

 fire, or that a large mass of the 

 electric fluid must have fallen in 

 the neighbourhood — but this was 

 completely disproved by the ex- 

 tensive reach of the blast. 



A. The hot blast did not appear 

 to me to travel perfectly straight ; 

 some indigo fields were completely 

 destroyed, some very little injured. 



A. I thought so, but no one 

 else seems to have observed it. I 

 thought there was a sulphureous 

 smell. 



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