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Cyclone at Cuddapah. [no. 5, new series, 



to the tanks as also to the fields and young crops. This flood is 

 almost entirely due to the bursting of tanks to the westward of 

 Nellore. 



The Nellore tank is breached in two places, but only at the 

 shallower portion, and there will be no difficulty in retaining a full 

 supply. The rivetment is very much injured, however, and in many 

 places for 4 or 500 yards, at a length, will have to be entirely re- 

 built. Breaches were in many places imminent, but altogether the 

 bund has withstood the severe trial very well, as in addition to the 

 force of the wind, it received during yesterday, the drainage of a 

 large tract of country and the whole of the water of Mooloomoody, 

 Condlapoody and Ambapoor tanks, which breached during the 

 storm. 



V. Notice of the same Cyclone at Cuddapah, on 2nd Novem- 

 ber 1857. By Lieut. E. Hemery, Madras Engineers. 



The following account of a storm which visited the town and 

 neighbourhood of Cuddapah, on the 2nd instant, may not be unin- 

 teresting. 



Sunday the 1st was calm with light clouds from the north east ; 

 at sunset, the sky became completely overcast, and towards morn- 

 ing of the 2nd, the wind shifted to the north-west from which quar- 

 c « ter it was blowing furiously at 6 a. m. accompanied by very heavy 

 rain. 



The storm increased in violence up to noon, and from that time 

 until 4 p. m. it blew a perfect gale, the rain continuing to fall with- 

 out the slightest intermission. 



Towards evening the wind went round to the south-west and 

 south, it then gradually fell, the rain ceased and by midnight it was 

 quite calm. 



I am happy to be able to report that the tanks, bridges and 

 other public works in the immediate vicinity of Cuddapah, have 



