Since writing the above communication with the outer world has been cut off by a typhoon, the most severe experienced here for 12 years, Atmospheric disturbance commenced on Friday from the E.N.E., rain fell in torrents, and on Saturday the typhoon was at its height. The river, which was full at the commencement, began to overflow and make a broad track across country regardless of curves and reaches.
city walls, and the junks outside anchored By Sauurday evening it had reached the themselves to the embrasures.
By midnight it had entered the West Gate and was sweeping across the city to the South Gate, and early on Sunday morning at the turn of the tide there was a depth of 3 and 4 feet in the native houses, and from 1 to 2 feet in the foreign houses. The streets were impassable On Sunday the force of the wind somewhat abated and it veered to S.E. Rain continued heavily, but the East wind no longer kept the waters back at the river mouth.
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