12 OLDHAM : CATALOGUE OF INDIAN EARTHQUAKES. 



a. D. 



1803. September Ut. the 1st August 1803, but he gives no authority. There 

 — contd. can be little doubt that it was the result of the earth- 



quake bpre noticed. And the authorities quoted are clear 

 as to its having been on the 1st September, not August. — 

 Archl. Rept. Jour. Asiat. Soc, Beng., 1864, xxxiii, 

 App. lix. 



1807. December 10th. — Madras. — Three distinct shocks occurred in middle of a 

 Between 12 and 1 Night, terrible cyclone, and accompanied by very heavy sea-waves. 



— Asiat. Ann. Reg., x, 1808. 



1808. April 13th. — Calcutta. — Not very violent : rumbling noise succeeded. 



2 A. M. Chandernagobe, &c. — House walls rent, a "northern room 



most considerably." — Asiat. Ann. Reg., 1808, x, 60. 



„ June 4th. — Bauda. — 'Two smart shocks ; felt also at Secrora. 



2-40 P. M. Dlnagepore. — Here said to be from south-west to north- 



east. — Asiat. Ann. Reg. 1808, x, 67. 



1809. Guehwal. — Falconer states that the Bishnoo Gunga River, 



one of the great branches of the Ganges, was blocked up 

 below Gosheenath by landslip caused by an earthquake, 

 and that the water rose 40 feet above its usual level. — 

 Jour. Asiat. ZSoc. Beng., x, 618 ; no date or authority is 

 given. 



1810. April 1st. — Calcutta. — Just after cessation of a north-waster: two 

 7-25 P. M. shocks, very distinct, quick : appeared first to be from 



north-east to south-west, and then the opposite ; duration 

 6 seconds and 30 seconds. Felt very distinctly at Garden 

 Beach, close to Calcutta, by three persons sitting at one 

 corner of a table and by the three sitting at the opposite 

 corner, but not by the remainder of the party (11). Noise 

 accompanied shock, said to be ' like muffled bells.' 1 

 Felt also at Dum-Dum, Barrackpore, Moorshedabad, Ram- 

 nuggur, &c. — Asiat. Ann. Reg., 1811, xii, 10, 463. 



May 13th. — Calcutta. — 'Said to be perpendicular: three successive 



9-45 P. M. shocks, and then undulatory motion lasting 8 to 10 seconds, 



and finished with a loud rumbling noise. Felt also in all 

 the vicinity. — Ibid., xii, 464. 



1811. February 1st. — Calcutta. — Severe ; continued forabout 30 seconds. — Asiat. 



2-20 p. M. Ann. Reg., 1811, xii, 69. 



1 This is evidently the earthquake quoted in published catalogues as occurring on April 

 8th ; according to the authority given it was on the 1st. 



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