38 WYNNE : OEOI.OC.y OF KUTCn. [PAET I 



about Veego-Gudj or rendering the laana west of that place cultiva- 

 ble ; and that bringing the water to Sayra again would be of no use 

 while the sea finds access to that part of the Runn during the monsoon. 

 From the accounts of the earthquake of 1819 little can be 

 gathered as to the direction and velocity of its 



Obscurity as to direc- 

 tion and velocity of wave. The results were more marked in Kutch. 



wave. 



than elsewhere, which may be taken to indicate 

 proximity to the line or centre of seismic disturbance ; and this indication 

 is strengthened by the circumstance that other earthquakes have occurred 

 in the region. According to the data given by Sir C. Lyell, the vibra- 

 tion travelled northwards at a rate of about SSj miles in a minute, and 

 it would appear to have occurred almost simultaneously over Kutch. 



The next earthquake recorded is a series of shocks in 1844, men- 

 tioned by Sir G. Le G. Jacob in the paper already 

 quoted. They are said to have further raised 

 the bank at Sindu or Sundo, so that a foot and a half was ' the 

 o-reatest depth of water ever found there.' ' Before they occurred, the 

 usual tide went over the Sundo by about half a foot,^ but in 1851 not 

 at all. At spring tides, however, a boat drawing a foot and a half of 

 water could with some labor be taken over the bank. ' These shocks 

 also enlarged the breadth of the Allah Bund to the extent of three koss 

 (six miles) . The shocks are said to have lasted during a whole month, and 

 were so threatening that while they lasted, the inhabitants ( ? of Lukput) 

 feared to sleep in their houses.^* 



Some other severe shocks are stated to have occurred in the very 



next year, in an extract from a letter to Captain 



'^ ^ ' Nelson, k. e., communicated to the Geological 



Society of London by the President {vide appendix) . The first shock of 



* The next earthquake occurring so soon after this and being felt in the same locality, 

 there may be a doubt as to whether both are not accounts of the same event. 

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