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Substance of letters from Noacolly in Lat. 22.53' N. Long. 90.54' 

 East. Communicated by Dr. Baker. 



No. 1. " We have had one of the most severe hurricanes that has been 

 known here since 1829. It commenced about 6 o'clock on the evening of 

 the 23rd; increasing till midnight when it blew a complete hurricane until 

 5 A. m. of the 24th ; the damage done and loss of life is said to be very 

 great. It commenced from the S. E. passed on the South and terminated 

 with the wind at S. W. 



No. 2. " Hatteah and Sundeep* have escaped pretty well, but Siddee (an 

 island between Sundeep and the mainland) and Bouring on the mainland 

 have suffered considerably in crops, cattle and some loss of inhabitants. 



No. 3. " Since my last I have seen a letter from Chittagong. The gale 

 was much more moderate at that place. They had very high tides and 

 squally weather, not amounting to a gale, on the 23rd and 24th. Accounts 

 from Noacolly continue to add to those received of the devastations of the 

 Cyclone in that quarter. The loss of human life is very great. Nearly two 

 hundred corpses were counted in the creek leading up to the station. They 

 had floated up with the tide, with numbers of cattle, deer, tigers, buffa- 

 loes, &c." 



Chittagong. 

 Letter from A, Sconce, Esq., G. S., Judge of Chittagong. 



" In case no account of our Chittagong weather during the late Cyclone 

 may have reached you, perhaps my notes may be acceptable. 



"The weather being previously fine, a change was first observable on the 

 afternoon and evening of the 18th Oct. ; there was a heavy, dirty looking 

 bank to Southward. At night it rained ; rained almost all the 19th lightly ; 

 with little wind S. to S. E. 21st and 22nd overcast with clouds : air still or 

 nearly so ; on 23rd wind at S. E. Morning and forenoon, heavy clouds rising 

 W. and S. W. veering to N. ; at noon heavy in the N. W. and thundering.f 

 From 1 to 3 p. m. wind S. to S. E. squally with rain ; evening squalls 

 heavier : before midnight, wind rose ; blew very strong (apparently) S. E. 

 perhaps nearer E. then to S. and so far as 1 could observe from 4 a. m. of 

 24th veered round to S. W. ; at 6 a. m. of the 24th blew strong from S. W. ; 

 at breakfast, wind began to fall. On the 23rd, 3.18 inches rain fell. My 

 Barometer being broken, I can give no account of it. 



* Islands at the mouth of the Burrampooter. 

 t This is worthy of note. — H. P. 



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