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bridge has a central pier then the pier has been shot up and the bridge broken. 

 This is, hov/ever, in some cases due partly to a sinking of the abutments as v/ell. 

 (P. 285.) 



Manshai Bridge: 



In the neighborhood of Dev/an Hat, however, the line has suffered severely, 

 and the bridges, particularly that over the Manshai River, have been broken 



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B D 



Fig. 5. — (A) Bridge of Tokaido Railway near the Kisogawa with abutment broken 

 by the approach of river banks during Japan earthquake of 189 1 (after Milne and 

 Burton). (B) Bridge over Salinas River with distorted abutment damaged during 

 California earthquake of 1906 (after Derleth). (C) County bridge over Pajaro River 

 at Chittenden, CaUfornia, after the CaUfornia earthquake of 1906 (after Dudley). 

 (D) Manshai bridge after the Assam earthquake of 1897 (after Oldham). 



(see Fig. 5, D). At about seven miles south of Kuch Bihar, a small bridge passing 

 over a v/ater channel in sv/ampy land has been damaged by the thrusting -up of 

 the central pier. (P. 287.) 



