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with wrecks of trees and Louses, the most awful thunder and light- 

 ning that has been heard for years accompanied this rain, but not 

 much wind. On the morning of the 14th, the same weather con- 

 tinued. The Barometer had risen to 29.62. In the afternoon of 

 the 14th, the weather was fair but cloudy. The Barometer stand- 

 ing at 29.57, still a low figure. On the 16th, Barometer 29.60. 

 Thermometer 83°. Fresh breezes from the South and fair weather. 



4th. Having now endeavoured to give you a detailed account of 

 this severe hurricane, I will attempt to relate as far as I have ascer- 

 tained the damage done to the shipping and the Port generally. 

 The temporary flag-staff has been blown down, one Row boat was 

 blown on shore but no damage of importance done. The Port 

 Master's Schooner " Cygnet" has foundered at her anchors, and one 

 man is lost. "When I visited the wreck, I found a large raft of timber 

 foul of it, what share this had in sending her to the bottom, I cannot 

 say ; the people on board of the Schooner appear to have been so 

 desperately affrighted, that they can give no account of themselves 

 nor of any thing else. Intercourse with the shore was perfectly out 

 of the question. Por the reasons stated in my separate letter I fear 

 the Schooner is irrecoverably lost. 



5th. The buoys at the river's mouth have withstood the gale. 



6th. The Pier at the ghat has been nearly destroyed partly by 

 vessels running against it, and partly by the force of the wind and 

 sea ; a portion of it is standing in the river, separated from the main 

 road, the intermediate space having given way. A great part of the 

 revetment erected for the protection of the salt golahs has been 

 destroyed and the salt golahs themselves exhibit a sorry spectacle 

 of what they have suffered. The losses in this department are cur- 

 rently estimated by lacks, not in thousands of rupees. The shipping 

 community have suffered most severely, 22 vessels have sunk at 

 their anchors and 44 vessels have been cast on the shore, many of 

 them so severely damaged, as to render their recovery useless even 

 when recoverable. On the whole there never has been perhaps 

 such a fatal season to the shipping at this Port, and whether I look 

 at the shipping or the shore, the ravages of the desolating elements 

 are alike every where apparent. 



7th. This I feel to be a very inadequate description of the mis- 



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