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of it to the westward, which from their proximity to the
Maidan, (plain) & the river were the most exposed were
more or less, a wreck. Excepting the cocoa nut [coconut] &
and other palms, scarcely a tree was any where to be found standing.
The beautiful avenues of in Fort William were entirely
destroyed; & the Eden gardens were turned into a
wilderness in Tank Square the trees & shrubs were blown
away & in many parts the iron railings torn up &
overthrown. In Garden Reach the roads were blocked
up & rendered inpassible from the trees that fell
across them. The splendid avenue of [Asoth?] (polyathia
longifolia) trees in the compound of the school op-
posite St James Church, some of which must have been
four or five feet in circumference, was entirely destroyed.
The trees being snapped off above the lavel of the wall
which protected them, but which is now no longer standing.
The damage don to the buildings was considerable
amony those we notice that the roof of the Free School
was blown away: The upper part of the Roman Catholic
Church, at the upper end of the Bow Bazaar road entirely
destroyed and the steeple of the Free Chruch of Scotland:
the ninarets of the mosque Dhurrumtolah were all

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