1854.] A Twenty-second Memoir on the Law of Storms. 23 



require a very nice observer to recognise the shock of an earthquake, 

 unless very severe ; but Capt. Maxwell says he felt one. I fully 

 expected my house to come down, as there was one next to me 

 roofless and the tenant, Lieut. Hutchison, his wife and child in a 

 stable, and they could not even walk over to my house, not fifty 

 yards across. 



J. R. B. One or two residents in the station imagined they 

 felt an earthquake ; but I was awake during the whole night and 

 was conscious of nothing of the kind. 



M. At 5 minutes to 2 a. M. I distinctly felt an earthquake, and 

 so did Mr. Maxwell : I cannot be mistaken. 



j£. T. I felt something like it about that time, as the doors and 

 even the walls appeared to shake. 



The following are abridgments of newspaper accounts which ap- 

 peared shortly after this Cyclone in the Calcutta Englishman. 



The weather has been so very unusual here, that many persona 

 supposed a hurricane had occurred at the Sandheads. Reports from 

 that quarter, however, mentioned remarkably fine weather for tho 

 season, and we were beginning to think that all was well, when we 

 found by the subjoined letter from a gentleman on whom we can 

 fully rely, that the gale had visited another quarter, and it is to be 

 feared that it has extended to the coast of Arracan : — 



" Chittagong, Monday, 14<th May. 



" On Saturday night Chittagong was visited by a tremendous 

 storm or hurricane, of which I beg to give you the following account, 

 in the hope that it may be interesting to you and your readers. 



" During the evening of Saturday, the 12th instant, heavy rain 

 fell, accompanied by strong wind, which increased in violence about 

 11 p. m., and from midnight to 3 a. m. on Sunday morning it blew a 

 furious gale, with all the violence of one of Mr. Piddington'a Cy- 

 clones or a West India Hurricane. 



" At first the wind came from the North-East, but it gradually 

 worked round to the South, being most violent when about at South- 

 East, and afterwards slowly diminishing its strength and fury as it 

 came round to the North- West, at which point it gradually subsided 

 into an ordinary breeze. 



" Such a storm has not been known at Chittagong since the year 

 1824. Its effects have been terrible, and though Government is 



