The Bedford from the East Indies brought advice of a most terrible Hurricane at Bengal, on Sept 30 which demolished many houses, kill’d vast Numbers of Inhabitants and destroyed and damag’d several of our East- India Ships.

We had the following Particulars (among others) of the dreadful Hurricane that happen'd in India,

mention'd in our last, p.257. In the Night between the 11th and 12th of Oct. last, there happened a furious

Hurricane at the Mouth of the Ganges, which reached 60 Leagues up the River. There was at the same

Time a violent Shock of an Earthquake, which threw down a great many Houses along the River Side; in

Galgota alone, a Port belonging to the English, 200 Houses were thrown down; and the high and

magnificent Steeple of the English Church sunk into the Ground without breaking. It is computed that

20,000 Ships, Barks, Sloops, Boats, Canoes, &c. have been cast away. Of 9 English Ships then in the

Ganges, 8 were lost, and most of the Crews drowned. Barks of 60 Tons were blown two Leagues up into

the Land, over the Tops of high Trees. Of the 4 Dutch Ships in the River 3 were lost, with all the Men

and Cargoes: 300,000 Souls are said to have perished. The Water rose forty Feet higher thin usual in the

Ganges.