CiiAr. I. 
EFFECTS OF RAINS. 
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and had the violence of the rain continued an hour or 
two longer, many houses must have been undermined 
and destroyed. As it was, much individual incon- 
venience has been sustained. About 5 o'clock the 
whole of Queen's Road, from the entrance to the large 
bazaar to the market-place, was completely flooded, to 
the depth of from two to four feet. All the streets 
leading upwards to the hill served as feeders to this 
lake. In Peel Street particularly the torrent rushed 
along, bearing everything before it, and the street still 
resembles a dried-up watercourse, covered with stones 
and wrecks of buildings. The passages from the Queen's 
Road to the sea were all full ; the one leading through 
Chunam's Hong for hours presented the appearance of a 
rapid river, and many of the houses on each side were 
only saved from the flood by mud-walls hastily raised. 
About 6 o'clock the rain moderated, but for some time 
after the road was quite impassable. A Coolie, at- 
tempting to ford the stream rushing down D'Aguilar 
Street, was borne off his feet, but saved himself by 
catching hold of the frame of a mat-shed. The drain 
lately formed could not carry oft' the water, which com- 
mitted great devastation, flooding a new house in its 
vicinity to the depth of nearly three feet, and destroying 
some new walls. All the open drains in the upper 
streets have suffered, many are entirely destroyed, 
leaving scarcely a trace of the street. A stream from 
a distant watercourse flowed along the road above the 
bungalow, occupied by the attorney-general, and, de- 
scending with great fury upon the roof of one of his 
out-oflices, carried away a great part of it. In many 
