318 Account of an Eurthquake at Kutch. 
in the streets, and upwards of five hundred of the party were 
smothered in the ruins of the falling houses.” 
The effects of this earthquake have indeed been so exten- 
sive, that we cannot pretend to enumerate the more minute 
disasters. We have confined ourselves to the most promi- 
nent of them ; and we now proceed to give some accountof 
the sensations felt by the individual sufferers during the con- 
tinuance of the concussions. In the British camp, which 
was pitched in a plain between the fort and city of Bhooj, the 
general feeling was an unpleasant giddiness of the head, and 
sickness of stomach, from the heaving of the ground; and 
during the time the shock lasted, some sat down instinctively, 
and others threw themselves on the ground. Those who 
were on horseback were obliged to dismount, the earth 
shook so violently that the horses could with difficulty keep 
their feet ; and the riders, when upon the ground, were 
scarcely able to stand. At Ahmedabad, ‘all the disagreea- 
ble sensations were experienced of being tossed ina ship at 
sea in a great swell; and the rocking was so great, that ev- 
ery moment we expected the earth to open under our feet.” 
One gentleman writing from Surat, where the earthquake 
began at twenty minutes past seven, says, ‘‘ The vibration 
of the couch I was lying onwas so great, thatI was glad to get 
offit: the house was considerably agitated, and the furniture all 
in motion ; a small table close to me kept striking the wall, 
and the lamps swung violently. JI ran down stairs and out 
of my house as fast as possible. On getting on the outside, 
I found a number of people collected, gazing with astonish- 
ment at my house, which stands alone, and was so violently 
agitated that I expected it to falldown. The earth was con- 
vulsed under our feet.”’ Another thus writes from Broach : 
‘* Such of the houses as are elevated, and at all loosely 
built, creaked like the masts and rigging of a ship in a gale, 
the venetians and window-frames rattling violently, and the 
buildings threatening immediately to fall; a considerable 
lateral motion was impressed on every thing that admitted 
of it. After this more violent concussion had lasted a min- 
ute or upwards, it was succeeded by. an oscillatory motion, 
of a more equable character, which continued for more than 
a minute and a half, making the whole period of the convul- 
sion nearer three than two and a half minutes.” , An intelli- 
gent native residing in Iseria, gives the following cccount: 
