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gate, and pillars, viewed as a mass, were held together, and tied on to 

 the walls on either side, having materially affected the result. I shall 

 notice this again. 



Searching through the cemetery, only few traces of the action of the 

 earthquake were noticed. A small simple monument, consisting merely 

 of a flat plateau or table of brickwork with a head wall raised at the 

 north end of it, into which a marble slab with inscription had been built 

 was in ruins. The sides of the little table bore north and south, and of 

 course the axis of the wall at the head, at right angles to this, was east 

 and west. The whole of this wall was overthrown and lay in a heap of 

 separate bricks, as it fell ; this was clearly just overturned and lay 

 unmoved, excepting in so far as it was shaken into its separate bricks, 

 the brickwork being of the poorest kind, and the adhesion of the mortar 

 more than usually slight. The direction of the fall, which could be 

 ascertained with considerable accuracy was North 3° 20' East. 



None of the other smaller monuments showed evidence of the de- 

 structive force of the wave. A small plain stone cross, to the memory of 

 the infant son of Captain Stewart, dating 1864, probably erected 1865, 

 remained perfect. The shaft was rectangular of 5 \ by 4| inches, the total 

 height being 3 feet 2 inches, and the breadth of cross arms 2 feet 1 inch. 

 This was inserted into a plain terrace or plateau of steps, and it would 

 give a good measure of the limits of the force, if needed. 



But the most remarkable case of destruction remains to be noticed. 

 Near the centre of the cemetery ground stood a very elaborate and cost- 

 ly white marble tomb or sarcophagus, erected to the memory of Charles 

 . E-uthnot Stewart, Esq., who died at Silchar in June 1864. This care- 

 fully-prepared and well-chiselled tomb had been constructed by Messrs. 

 Llewellyn and Co., a well-known and long-established firm in Calcutta, 

 and the parts had been by them transmitted to Silchar. It is but 

 right, however, to add, with especial reference to any remarks;! may have 

 to make on the construction, that the monument was not put up by 

 the Messrs. Llewellyn, or their workmen, but by some local masons. 

 I am able to give a rough sketch of the tomb (PI. X, fig. £), as it 



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