1832. At Coringa a great and very destructive tion.—Beng. Ad. Sor. Journal, 1834, xiv. p. 259.
1833, November. At Canton, excessive rain, and 10,000 houses swept away, and 18,000 persons drowned.
1837. On the Tapti at Sumt, on Auguat 6, 1837, 500 houses were said to have been destroyed, the loss estimated at betwixt 30 and 40 lakhs of rupees (.£300,000 to .6400,000); and lakh and a half (£15,000) was (subscribed at Bombay to supply the sufferers with grain.
1838 ?-39? The Ganges once rose 45 feet above tho usual level ; swept away Burree Build, and laid a town four feet under water ; and an account of it appeared in tho Agra Ukhbar, August 30, 1839,— As. Jl. 1839. Inundations at Ilussingabad were mentioned in As. J1., April 1839, and a descrip tion of that at Agra in the As. J1. 1838.
1839, December. A hurricane sea-wave, or wave caused by an earthquake, rose 8 feet above the level of Coringa village; the inundation covered 30 miles of country, and above 7000 people were drovrned. £100,000 worth of property destroyed on shore ; at aes 70 vessels were lost, with about 700 lives.
1841. Tho Indus' seemed to have been for some time pondod back, when a terrific flood swept over Attock and all the country around. Dr. Falconer gave an account of it in 131. As. Trunk 1843, x., and Dr. Jameson, ibid. xii. It occurred from the giving way of a glacier. The body of a woman dressed in sheep-skins was thrown ashore at Attock, and supposed to be a Tibetan ; 10,000 lives were said to 'have been lost (As. Jl. 1841, xxxv. 196, I 264). Captain Abbott gave an account of it from lips of natives in the 131. As. Trans. 1841, p. '230. From hundreds of villages and tovrns, including lihyrabad and Attock, thousands of human beings and cattle were swept away. In the Hamra court. try, artillery guns with twiny hundreds of infantry and cavalry were lost ; R whole camp with troops and followers was carried down the river.
1845. Great floods in China, deluging the shores of the Yellow Sets, submerging whole provinces.
1849. Dr. Bidet gave an account of that of 1849 in Edin. Phil. M. 1851; 131. As. Trans. 1851.
1f356. l'rome nearly deatroyed by overflow of the haws di.
1866. In Puri, during the 32 years ending in 1866, there were 24 years of excessive rains: but in 1866 floods swept over nearly all the l'un districts ; in one pargana more than 12 vinare miles of gelid land were suddenly turned into a sea from 7 to 9 feet deep,and thousands of families floated about in canoes on bamboo rafts, and on trees, and many perished. In 1769-70, 1777, 1788, 1S66, 1874, and 1b77, there have been famines in parts of Bengal ; but the famine of 1866waa felt in the Twenty-four Parma**, in .Nadiya, llugli, Dacca, anti Murshblabad ; and Orissa was devaatated. The numbers who perished will never be aecurately knovrn. The estimate has been about one-fourth of the entire population.
1867. A great sea-wave in a cyclone broke along the coast at Masulipatam, and caused enormous loss of life and property.
1871. Near Prome great floods.
1872. In Kandesh and Nasik, great floods, attributed to the destruction of the forests.
1875. In Burma, heavier floods than in 1S71.
1875. In N.W. Provinces, disastrous floods, causing loss of life and destruction of property.
1875-76. The river Tons and the Jumna. rose, and the waters of the Jumna entered Allahabad. On the subsidence of the floods, it WAB found that 772 villages had been destroyed or damaged, 181 lives lost, 1949 head of cattle and S26 aheep and swine drowned, and the total damage estimated at nearly 14 lakhe of rupees.
1876. In northern provinces of China great floods. 1876. In October 1876, a tidal wave, consequent on a hurricane, inundated Bengal • lives lost estimated at 200,000, and great destructIon of property.
1878. For four menthe up to 31arch, in Ceylon, a succes sion of floods.
—Edye in Loud. As. Trans. 1835, ii. p. 342; Dr. Buist's Catalogue.