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XLI. ExtraEl of a Letter from Mr. Edward 
Guidon, at Chittigong, to Major John 
Carnac, at Calcutta. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Nov. 17, f n \ H E reafon principally of this ad-^ 
JL drefs is to give you a particular ac- 
count of the fhocks of a violent earthquake, which 
were felt here on the 2d inftant at 5 in the afternoon 
lafting the fpace of four minutes. The factory, a 
brick building, is totally fpoiled, fo as not to be fafe- 
ly habitable ; for thereabouts, and in many other 
places, the earth opened, and- the waters gufhed out 
prodigioully ; and in the chaife-road, efpecially to- 
wards the north quarter,, there are great chafms two 
feet wide and upwards, fo ftrange, that the morning 
after, riding that way, the horfe ftarted and went 
round another way, not willing to go over them. 
At the time of the frit fhake, great explofions 
were heard like the noife of cannons, of which Mr. 
Plaifted and others counted . 15. 
All the tanks overflowed their banks, fifh were call; 
up, and the river rufhed upon the fhore like the furf 
of the fea. It was the mofl: extraordinary event I 
was ever witnefs to : by the enclofed paper you will 
difcern how many alarms we had, however nothing 
equal to the firff, in which the whole force of the 
earthquake feems to be exerted. At prefent, the af- 
ternoon of the 4th of April, all our heads feem to be 
quiet and ftill, and confequently the earth at reft ; but 
really 
