'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎298] (475/524)

NOTES ON THE EARTHQUAKE
298
“ It seems to have been but slighlty felt in the western part of
Kutch, so much so as to have occasioned remarks from but few.
My Delhi letters mention the occurrence of a violent storm of hail
rain, thumder, and lightning on the 29th ultimo. It came on like a
common dust storm, but the wind increased to a hurricane, and unroofed
houses, uprooted trees, tore limbs from old veterans of long standing
and was so violent while it lasted, that even chairs and tables in
verandahs were whirled away by it. The next morning the roads
were covered with broken branches and fallen trees lying across
them ; while in the Queen’s Gardens the damage is quite disheartenino*
to the able Superintendent. Such a storm has not been known in Delhi
for many years.
It will be seen from the following table, containing the daily mean
values of the meteorological elements at Bombay, that convulsion
exercised no observable disturbing influence, thereby testifying to the
correctness of a principle in science now generally accepted.
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