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bon, and where it is thought the chief force of the 
earthquake vented itfelf. 
At Dacca, in this kingdom of Bengal, the confe- 
rences have been terrible : the rife of the waters 
_ if 1 j r * Ver WaS ver ^ ^ uc ^en an( ^ violent, that fome 
hundreds of large country boats were driven afhore, 
or loft, and great numbers of lives loft in them. 
No.lefs deplorable are the accounts from Chatti- 
ly 011 in this lame kingdom: three of thefe accounts 
I herewith inclofe, one of them wrote by Mr. Ed- 
W * F a y° un S gentleman in the fervice of 
our Eaft India Company, and two others, trandations 
from a Perlian original, made out by order of Mr. 
Verelft, chief of our Eaft India Company’s affairs in 
that province; in confequence of which account the 
Company s lands there, have not been fo highly af- 
fefled as before this calamity. Both thele accounts are 
trandated from the fame original ; but that, which I 
received from governor Vanfittart, being thought ex- 
aggerated foi interefted reafons, I begged of Mr. 
Gulfton to give me a litteral trandatfon from the 
Pei dan, in which language he has made an uncom- 
mon piogrefs, as much to his prefent honour, as I 
hope it will be to his future advantage. This favour 
he obligingly granted me, and I fend it to you, Sir, 
not only to compare it with the other trandation, but 
to give you fome diftant idea of the idiom and o- re at 
dmplicity of this eaftern language. 
The fame earthquake was alfo very alarmino- at 
Ghirotty, where colonel Coote with His Majefty’s 
troops are in cantonment about 18 miles up the river 
from this place. The waters in the river and tanks 
there were violently agitated, and, in many places, 
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