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of the disaster, which conveys much information as I
present able to offer.
3.
as
am at
It is difficult to make
even an
approximate estimate
of the amount of damage done; and the entire loss of life can never be known.
5.
4. The whole extent of the Praya or Sea Wall, for a distance of three Miles, is more or less seriously damaged. The old Civil Hospital has been abandoned as unsafe. 6. It is stated, I believe truly, that 200 Chinese have perished. at Stone Cutter's Island alone,
where the unoccupied Gaol has been unroofed, and Sea Wall
washed down/.
%
But few houses of any kind have escaped serious
injury, and
the New Cottage ("Mountain Lodge).
where I
joas
residing, together
with the Adjacent buildings,
are unroofed.
Eevery hour adds to the
number of dead bodies recovered. The destruction of Shipping
:
9.
is most lamentable.
10.
"China mail"
From all I
carv
learn the
25 Splines ortuguese Settlement at Macao,
has fared
Hongkong.
no better than
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