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Abstract log of the E. I. Ship Clarence, 1864-1891.

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is one of the utmost desolation & ruin. The loss of boats of every description is also enormous; probably nine out of ten were capsized & sunk by the storm wave which followed the change of wind from East to South & many of the remainder have been cast up on the shore. The utmost difficulty is from this cause experienced in communicating with the shipping. The Inland River steamers have not escaped. The steamer "Progress" with two flats left two days ago, & must have been between channel creek & Mutlah en route for Assam at the time of the Cyclone; but we do not yet know how far that extended. The steamer "Mirzapore" belon- ging to the Ganges Company is ashore at Armenian Ghaut. Four flats of the Indian general steam naviga- tion company are disabled; & two steamers & two flats, belonging to the Bengal river company are supposed to have been lost. The steamer "Cachai" which arrived here two days ago is missing, while her two flats are ashore & broken. Below will be found some interesting accounts furnished us of the gale at Serampore the gale appears from the Friend of India to have blown as furiously as in Calcutta. The road which skirts

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