10 OLDHAM: THE CACIIAR EARTHQUAKE OF lOTH JANUARY 1869. 



stood prior to the earthquake of the 10th January, copied from a most faded 

 photograph which is scarcely legible, and I took advantage of the fortu- 

 nate presence of Mr. Pearson in Silchar, during my visit, to obtain 

 through him a photograph showing the state of the mass as it appeared 

 after the shock had passed, which has been reproduced in PL X, fig. 2. 

 These views will give a much better idea of the wreck than any 

 description ; and yet this ruin in reality consisted only of the projection 

 of the heavy upper slab, the rest of the tomb being almost uninjured. 



As we shall return to this tomb, I will now merely state the upper 

 heavy slab of marble was found fairly projected from the body of the 

 tomb more than 8 feet towards the north-north-east, and thrown 

 unequally, the west end of the slab being thrown further than the east. 

 The tomb stood with its major axis bearing West 5° North and East 5° 

 South; the sides of the heavy mass as it now lies bear West 10° North; 

 the general direction of the throw or of the line joining centre of slab 

 as it now lies with the centre of body of tomb over which it was 

 placed, is 12° 30' West of South or East of North. 



The boundary walls of the cemetery enclosure had been cracked and 

 broken in several places, but there was nothing very remarkable noticed. 

 Still, in the absence of better observations, it may be noticed, that at 97 

 feet from the gateway to the west a marked crack extended from top to 

 bottom of the wall, making an angle of 25° with horizon, and at 34 feet 

 further in same direction there was another less marked crack, dividing 

 as it passed to the bottom of the wall, and which gave an average angle of 

 16° with the horizon. These cracks were in all cases opened along the 

 -joints of the brickwork — nowhere across the bricks themselves. Between 

 the two, the wall was slewed round fully 1 inch to the north at the east 

 end, and | of an inch to the south at the west end. Small thread-like 

 fissures occurred at the corner also ; at the north-east corner of the en- 

 closure there were cracks in the wall, and several others showed, at vary- 

 inc intervals, in the northern wall, most of these being nearly vertical. 



This cemetery enclosure is just on the edge of the Kandy lands ; to the 

 north the ground falls rapidly into the lower level of the peninsula of 

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