10 OLDHAM: CATALOGUE OP INDIAN EARTHQUAKES. 



A. D. 



1762. April 2nd. — raanently submerged. At DoHazari houses fell ; cavity 



— contd. opened 200 cubits in length and filled with water. Two 



volcanoes (?) said to have opened on the Seeta Kunda 



Hills. At Nahar Charcak (Bakar Tschurak) the island 



clove as under and was swallowed up by the waters. — > 



Phil. Trans., 1763, vol. viii, 251 ; Asiatic Annual 



Register, vol. vi, p. 60. Minor shocks continued up to 



19th. 



To this severe earthquake is attributed an elevation of the 



coast of Arracan, stated to extend over more than 100 



miles in length, with varying amount. Captain Halsted, 



wbo was engaged in a survey of that coast in the Childers, 



gives the results for the area he examined "from the 



Terribles, off the north coast of Ramree, to Foul Island." 



The general direction of the shoals, and coast here, is 



north-west by north to south-east by south. The elevation 



was greatest about the centre. At the Terribles it was 13 



feet ; at various points of the north-west of Cheduba 22 



feet, diminishing to 9 feet at Foul Island at south. Men 



were living at the time of Captain Halsted's visit who 



had fished over the then dry land. A third elevated beach 



was traced also on the west coast of Cheduba half way 



down and on Flat Island. Oysters were found adhering 



to a pinnacle of rock, about 40 feet high, on a line about 



13 feet above the second line of beach (that produced in 



1766), which was itself marked in a similar way. — Jour. 



Asiat. Soc, Beng., x, 433, &c. 



With the exception of the extremely vague story of men being 



'alive who had fished over the then dry land,' it is entirely 



a matter of assumption to attribute this elevation to the 



earthquake now just described. Captain Halsted's visit 



was in 1841. 



1762. July 13th. — Calcutta. — Not severe; two or three shocks. — Phil. Trtns., 



2-30 p.m. viii, 251. 



1764. June 4th. — Banks of Ganges. — Several violent shocks ; many houses 



overthrown, and large numbers of men and cattle killed. — 

 Asiat. Ann. Peg. viii, 98. 

 1780. ? Cashmie. — Date unknown ; severe. — Jour. Asiat. Soc, 



Beng., xii, 1044. 

 1800. October 19th. — Ongole.— Severe; lasted nearly a minute: occurred during a 

 4-10 a.m. violent cyclone. — Asiat. Ann. _Re^.,'1801, iii, chronicle, 43. 



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