which occurred in India in 1819. 113 



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 1500 houses 

 were destroyed from the foundations, and about a similar num- 

 ber rendered uninhabitable. The loss in lives amounted to 

 165, besides a number who afterwards died of their bruises. 

 The fort wall consisted of 3000 yards of masonry in cir- 

 cumference, not more than three feet and a half thick, and in 

 some places forty feet high ; and in this extent are included 

 31 towers, round and square. Of this 1000 yards are level 

 with the ground, 1333 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 ex- 

 cepting 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 destroyed. 

 Thera, which was esteemed the best in the province, has not 

 a stone unturned ; the town fortunately did not suffer in the 

 same unparalleled degree, although few or no houses were 

 left securely habitable f. 



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 forti- 

 fications down, but not so utterly destroyed as those of 

 Thera. 



Mothora, a similar place to those described, 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, Mandvee, Moondra, 

 Sandhan, Poonree, Buchao, and Adooee, may be recorded as 

 the most fortunate. The total of lives lost, according to the 



escaped undamaged. Moondra, Mandree, and Sandhan, close to the sea 

 shore, situated very low, and in sandy plains, escaped with little 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 

 perpendicular: they are not more than one hundred and ten years old. 



f The (owns mentioned do not contain more than 5 or C000 inhabit- 

 ants. 



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