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other fatal cases, and the wounded are all doing well ; the more serious 

 cases being looked after by the Native Doctor attached to the Agency 

 acting on my instructions. The RajVs loss in property is very great, 

 and is not yet fully known ; he is especially sorry about his muskets, 

 numbers of which, but recently received from Government, have been 

 irretrievably destroyed. 



" Full particulars from all the outlying districts and thannahs have 

 not yet been received, but, so far as I can ascertain, the earthquake has 

 been universal all over the valley and in every direction in the hills, and 

 much damage has been done, but, so far as I can hear, without loss of 

 life. At Morai Thannah, on the Burmese frontier, four days' journey 

 from this, the earthquake is described as having been very severe, and 

 the ground was extensively fissured. To the north, many villages be- 

 longing to the Nagas have been demolished. The hill streams have all 

 risen from 1 to 2 feet. At the salt wells in the valley, some 14 

 miles east from this, but little damage was done to the houses, but the 

 salt water in the wells is reported to have increased in depth 6 feet, 

 and this increase was accompanied by much noise. I have made enqui- 

 ries as to the behaviour of the large lake or jheel to the south of this 

 about 14 miles, as I expected that it would show some remarkable phe- 

 nomena, and I am informed that during the earthquake the water was 

 violently agitated and became of a reddish colour. After the earth- 

 quake the water appeared permanently increased, and a most remark- 

 ably thick crop of water plants appeared on the surface, rendering the 

 progress of boats very difficult. Altogether, I think that the sur- 

 face of the valley has, so far as I have been able to observe, sunk 

 probably a foot or more from its former level. 



" The reports from the line of road between this and British terri- 

 tory all point to most extensive damage, the road in many places being 

 completely destroyed. An enormous mass of rock, &c, is described as 

 having blocked up the Eurung River close to the ford, leaving but a 

 few feet for the passage of the water. So soon as matters somewhat 

 settle down, I purpose visiting the damaged portions of the road, 



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