you felt in Shanghai was the cause of con-Siderable damage and loss of life here, and was the severest known for several years past. Walls were blown down, trees uprooted, the whole country was under water, two islands down the river suffered a serious inflow of the tide, during which hundreds of houses were wrecked and more than a hundred lives lost. Two days afterwards the officials sent down some seventy coffins to bury what bodies could he recovered, and also a sum of money to help the poorest of those who were left alive. Up the coast in the Yotsinghsien a similar influx of the sea wrought similar hayocand here again we are told of over a hundred lives lost. The hill rice and the potatoes are damaged, but fortunately the early lowland rice' was nearly all reaped and the late rice is for the most part little the worse for its soaking, This has been
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