1824. ] 
At Anjar, half of the town, which is 
situated on low rocky ridges, suffered 
comparatively nothing; whilst the 
other half, upon a slope to a plain 
of springs and swamps, into which the 
town is drained, was entirely overturned. 
About 1,500 houses were destroyed from 
the foundations, and about a similar 
number rendered uninhabitable. The 
loss in lives amounted to 165, besides a 
number who afterwards died of their 
bruises. The fort wall consisted of 
3,000 yards of masonry in circumference, 
not more than three feet and a half 
thick, and in some places forty feet 
high; and in this extent are included 
thirty-one’ towers, round and square. 
Of this 1,000 yards are level with the 
ground, 1,333 yards destroyed to within 
ten feet of the bottom, and only 667 
yards standing to the rampart, and the 
greatest part of this split in half* All 
the houses excepting four are cut as it 
were in two; in some the inner and in 
others the outer half has crumbled into 
ruins. The east and swampy face is 
down to the very surface of the earth. 
There are, or rather were, a great 
number of fortified towns throughout 
Cutch: in general their works are de- 
stroyed. Thera, which was esteemed 
the best in the province, has not astone 
unturned ; the town fortunately did not 
suffer in the same unparalleled degree, 
although few or no houses were left 
securely habitable.+ 
Kotheree, another town of the same 
kind, five or six miles from Thera, was 
reduced to a heap of rubbish, only about 
fifty or sixty gable ends of ruins left 
standing. ‘The fortifications down, but 
not so utterly destroyed as those of 
Thera. 
Mothora, a similar place to those de- 
scribed, suffered equally in houses and 
ramparts, and more in lives than any 
place of its size. Nulliah, Kotharee, 
Venjan, and many other towns of the 
same size and description, suffered nearly 
in the same manner; but it would be a 
much easier task to enumerate those 
that escaped. Among the latter, Mand- 
vee, Moondra, Sandhan, Poonree, Bu- 
damage. It is probable, however, that their 
foundations are on the strata of sand-stone, 
which at different depths appear to be the 
support of the soil of the whole province. 
* The walls of Anjar were remarkably 
bad, and in most places off the perpendicu- 
lar: they are not more than one hundred 
and ten years old. 
+ The towns mentioned do not contain 
more than 5 or 6,000 inhabitants. 
The great Earthquakes in India in 1819. 
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chao, and Adooee, may be recorded as 
the most fortunate. The total of lives 
lost, according to the best information I 
have been able to procure, does not ex- 
ceed two thousand: of these, 
Bodies. 
Trt, ROOF chvig-sbae senicosts on A 5h 20™ 
To) Angjar ..c.ccccseeseences 165 
In Nothoradtesccassstsecoy JO 
Arini Dhteratevedessders bes otal 5 60 
In Kotheree...........005. 34 
Minn taht (eee ode nies see 8 
In Mandree.........e000. 40 
Tir) Larckyinit: a .acsenesecoe | ie 
Total...1,543 
The rest are chiefly sufferers in villages 
and small towns, of which no very au- 
thentic account can be procured. Many 
very distressing accidents might be. re- 
lated; but I know of none so much so 
as that of a whole family of women and 
children, maleand female, to the number 
of eleven people, the wives and offspring 
of a Jhareja family of rank in Mothora, 
being smothered in one room (where 
they had hastily assembled) by a lofty 
bastion being precipitated directly upon 
their apartment. An aged grandfather 
and one son, I believe, are alone left of 
the stock. 
As far as comes under our notice, the 
face of nature has not been much altered 
by the shocks. The hills, which are 
most likely to show its effects, although 
from their abruptness and conical or 
sharp ridgy summits, and from the mul- 
titude of half-detached rocks with which 
they are generally covered, they might 
have been expected to have displayed 
strong marks of the convulsion by which 
they were agitated, have in no instance, 
to my personal knowledge, suffered 
more than having had large masses of 
rock and soil detached from their preci- 
pices. Ihave seen none with the cones 
flattened, or in any remarkable degree 
altered. 
At the moment of the shock vast 
clouds of dust were seen to ascend from 
the summits of almost every hill and 
range of hills. Many gentlemen _per- 
ceived smoke to ascend, and in some in- 
stances fire was plainly seen bursting 
forth fora moment. A respectable na- 
tive chieftain} assured me, that from a 
hill’ 
* Registered and discovered: but up- 
wards of 300 bodies never found in the. 
ruins. 
} Jharejah Vijerajjee of Roha: which 
place is twenty-six miles W. of Bhoo}, 
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