CATALOGUE. 11 



A. P. 



1803. May 22nd. — Upper Ganges.— Lasted six or seven seconds; rumbling 

 3-7 p.m. noise like distant thunder. — Raper, Asiat. Res., xi, 511. 



1803. September 1st.— Matura (Mttttra).— Very violent; lasted several minutes. 

 0- 30 Midnight. Many pucka buildings thrown down : very extensive 

 fissures in fields, through which water rose with consider, 

 able violence, and in quantity sufficient to be used by 

 cultivators. Principal mosques, erected by Ghazi Khan, 

 destroyed, and a considerable part of the dome was swal- 

 lowed up during the opening of the earth. Several 

 slighter shocks followed. 1 — Asiat. Ann. Reg., 1803, vi, 

 chronicle, 58. 

 -.35, — Calcutta, &c. — The same was felt at Calcutta and neigh- 

 bourhood; river much agitated; water, with many fish, 

 thrown out of tanks; church clock stopped at 1-35 

 night. — Ibid., vi, 35. 

 — Kumaon.? — The earthquake, given as occurring in this year 

 without date in Kumaon, where many buildings were 

 ruined, was most probably the same. — Brit. Ass. Catal., 

 1854, p. 54. 

 Upper Valleys of Ganges, Sirmoor, and Gtjrhwal. 

 — Very violent; 200-300 people destroyed at Barahal. 

 Badrinath also suffered severely; several villages swal- 

 lowed up. — Raper, Asiat. Res., xi, 509 ; Gleanings in 

 Science, ii, 50 ; Asiat. Res., xiv, 139 ; Jour. Asiat. Soc., 

 Beng., xii, 1031. 

 Elphinstone (India, Vol. II) states that the Qutb Minar 

 at Delhi was deprived of its upper portion by an earth- 

 quake. No authority is given, and I have searched in 

 vain for any detailed record. I have been able, by the 

 friendly aid of Maulavi Kabiruddin, to find in a modern 

 work entitled Asar-u-Sanadid, by Sewad-ud-dowlab, print- 

 ed at Delhi in 1847, a passing notice of this fact. But this 

 merely records that Sultan Sikandar, son of Beloli, had 

 the upper portion of the Qutb renewed after it had been 

 injured by lightning, and that " subsequently it was again 

 injured by lightning and an earthquake," after which it 

 was repaired by the English. No date is given, or inter- 

 val after the repairs by Sikandar. General Cuningham 

 states that this injury to the Qutb Minar happened on 



This is the earthquake referred to in Mallet's Catalogue under 1803 on the banks of 

 the Upper Ganges, but without date ; given under the month of July. 



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