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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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