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CHINA

by them is tremendous, houses being overthrown, trees torn up by the roots, crops destroyed, and large areas inundated. It is recorded that in August, 1862, as many as thirty thousand people were killed by a typhoon in Canton, Hongkong, and their vicinity, and that in September, 1874, the same regions were the scene of a similarly wholesale calamity.

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