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15U5. July 6th. Kabul) to the plain, being a distance of about six or seven 



farsangs, tbe wbole space was so rent and fractured, that 

 in some places the ground was elevated to the height of 

 an elephant above its old level, and in other places as 

 much depressed ; and in many places it was so split that a 

 person might have hid himself in the gaps. During the 

 time of the earthquake, a great cloud of dust rose from the 

 tops of the mountains ; many rising grounds were levelled. 

 That same day there were thirty-three shocks, and for the 

 space of a month, the earth shook two or three times every 

 day and night." 

 Firishtah also (Lucknow edition, p. 183) mentions this earth- 

 quake as occurring at Agra during the reign of Sultan 

 Sikandar Lodhi " on Sunday, the third day of 9afar." 

 These dates combined fix the occurrence very accurately, as 

 having taken place on the 6th July. The year 911 of the 

 Hijra commenced on the 4th June 1505, A. D. Muharram 

 (1st month) has 30 days, Qafar (2nd month) has 3 days, 

 or the 3rd of (^aisn; 911, was the 33rd day from the 4th 

 of June = the 6th July. Firishtah adds, " On Sunday." 

 Now, according to Prinsep's Useful Tables (p. 198), the 

 year 911, A, H. commenced on' Wednesdaj', the 4th of 

 June ; therefore the 33rd day of the year coincides with 

 Sunday, the 6th July, 1505, old style. Firishtah died 

 soon after, 1600, A. D. 



1552. Cashmie. — Mentioned in Prinsep's Tables; no particulars. 



1618. May 26th. — Bombay, &c- — Accompanied a severe hurricane ; 2,000 lives 



and 60 vessels lost at Bombay. 



1663. February 1th ?. — Lakhugar. — One day's journey from Gauhati ; in the even- 



ing. Jour. As. Soc. Beng., XLL, pt. 1, page 95. 



1664. date. ? — Seven days' journey from Dacca. — Shocks recurred for 32 



days — Brit. Ass. Catal., 1852, 84, quoting Collect. 

 Academ. 



1668. May . — SamAji. — Delta of Indus. " At this time (between 1st and 



lOfch Zi Hajjah, A. H., 1078) a report was received from 

 the Soobah of Tattah that the town of Samawam (or 

 Samaji) which belongs to the Parganah of Lahori had 

 sunk into the ground with 30,000 bouses during an earth- 

 quake." Ma6sir A'lamgiri, Edit. Bibl. Indica, p. 74, 

 This time corresponds to 2nd to 11th May, 1668. 

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