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best information I have been able to procure, does not exceed 



two thousand : of these, 



Bodies. 

 In Bhooj, . . . . . 1140* 

 In Anjar, . . . . . 1 65 

 In Mothora, .... 73 



In Thera, 65 



In Kotheree, .... 34 



In Nulliah, 8 



In Mandree, .... 45 

 In Luckput, .... 13 



Total, 1543 

 The rest are chiefly sufferers in villages and small towns, of 

 which no very authentic account can be procured. Many 

 very distressing accidents might be related ; but I know of 

 none so much so as that of a whole family of women and chil- 

 dren male and female, tp 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 assem- 

 bled) by a lofty bastion being precipitated directly upon their 

 apartment. An aged grandfather and one son, I believe, 

 are alone left of the stock. It is remarkable that under the 

 heaviest misfortunes of mankind there is generally some cause 

 for congratulation ; and in the case of this calamity, had the 

 accident occurred in the night time, perhaps a third of the 

 population of the province would have been buried in the 

 ruins of their own dwelling-houses. 



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 multitude 

 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 in- 

 stance, to my personal knowledge, suffered more than having 

 had large masses of rock and soil detached from their precU 

 pices. I have 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 perceived smoke to ascend, and in 

 some instances fire was plainly seen bursting forth for a mo- 



* Registered and discovered ; but upwards of 300 bodies never found in 

 the ruins. 



nient. 



