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four or five pieces, on which it became extinguished and in- 

 visible. No fragments could be discovered, but the vegeta- 

 tion was found scorched where it fell. On being examined 

 next day, the hill was found rent and shattered, as if some- 

 thing within had sunk. Fire to a certain extent was said to 

 have issued from a bituminous hill, from which alum is made, 

 near Murr ; the height of the hill was considered to have 

 been reduced, and it was rent and shattered into ravines. 

 Near the town of Sinderee, situated where a branch of the 

 Indus joins the Kunn, and which was permanently submerged 

 on the occasion, a number of small cones, six or eight feet 

 in height, burst up from the ground, and continued for many 

 days to emit bubbles of air and mud from their summits.* 

 The first and greatest shock occurred about seven p.m. on 

 the 16th June, lesser shocks continued till the 20th, when 

 the volcano called Denodur, about 30 miles northwest of 

 Bbooj, burst into action, and the movements of the earth 

 immediately stopped. t 



Vestiges of recent outbursts, though of unknown date, 

 appear at the village of Wage-ke-Pudda. A high table- 

 land of moveable matter about two miles square, has been 

 blown out into a flat basin, the sides being broken into fis- 

 sures, with craters, ravines, and hollows ; and the interior or 

 bed of the basin interspersed with hillocks and cones of 

 every variety of colour, black, red, yellow, and white, and 

 with patches of cinders similar to the refuse of a furnace ; 

 the whole looking as fresh as if the igneous agents were still 

 in operation. The surface of the table-land immediately sur- 

 rounding the blown-out space, is covered with burnt iron- 

 stone, similar to septaria, divided into irregular cells. On 

 other parts of the table-land, craters of some 15 or 20 feet 

 in depth have been blown out ; they are composed of the 

 materials just described, and are covered with patches of 

 sulphur.J 



* M'Murdo's account of the Earthquakes of Western India, 1819. Bombay 

 Lit. Trans., vol. iii., p. 105. 



t Captain Baird Smith on Indian Earthquakes. Bl. As. Trans., June 1843. 

 The authority on which this statement is made is not stated, 



\ Grant's Geology of Cutch, London Trans., 1838, p. 316. 



