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No. 9. 

 Were any fire-balls or sparks noticed ? 

 E. None that I saw or heard of. 



M. None except from the boats and houses referred to. 



No. 10. 

 Was there any thing which appear like flashes or gleams of light in 

 the vacuum of the tube of the Barometer noticed ? 

 E. I think not. I had my barometer before me all the time. 

 I took it down at first, as I thought my house was coming down, 

 and on putting it up was surprised to find it had fallen to such a 

 low figure and was still falling. 



No other replies are given to this query. 



No. 11. 

 What do you take to have been the greatest rise of the river above low 

 water mark, and at what time did it reach this ? 

 E. The moon on the 12th was 28 days old nearly, and conse- 

 quently it was a neap-tide: Indeed almost the lowest tide. Yet 

 my row-boat was blown up so high on shore, that I could not find 

 her off without digging her out, even on the next highest spring- 

 tide ; I should say the rise of water was at least 18 feet. Fifteen 

 feet is the ordinary rise of high spring-tide here. 

 M. I should say 18 or 20 feet. 



R. I. Not less, I should be disposed to think. Such was the 

 force of the storm, that at the Sudder Ghat a vessel of 4,500 maunds 

 (150 tons) was thrown nearly on the road. 



No. 12. 

 Was the rise a gradual or a sudden one, and did any wave or bore 

 come in when the sudden rise took place? 

 No replies. 



No. 13. 

 Please to add any other remarks or details which may occur to you. 

 Say such as indicate the great force of the ivind or the like. 

 E. The force of the wind was equal to any hurricane I ever saw 

 at sea off the Mauritius. It blew down the spire of the church, the 

 balustrades of houses and trees of all kinds, and left the town in a 

 fearful state of desolation. All the fallen trees, at least the large 

 trees, lie in a S. E. and N. W. line, their heads to the N. W. 

 plainly indicating the quarter from which the severity of the hur- 



