CATALOGUE. 17 



A. D. 



1828. June 6th. — Cashmib. — Very severe ; shook down many houses, and 



10-30 p.m. killed many people — perhaps 1,000 people and 1,200 



June 15th, houses. Earth opened in many places about the city, and 



3 p.m. foetid water, rather warm, rose rapidly from the clefts and 



then subsided. Clefts soon closed and left no traces. Just 

 before sunrise another shock, accompanied by terrific ex- 

 plosion louder than a cannon ; twenty such shocks on that 

 day, each with an explosion ; river sometimes appeared to 

 stand still and then to rush forward. For the two months 

 succeeding there never were less than 100, often 200 

 shocks in the day, each accompanied by an explosion. 

 Number then decreased to about 10 in the 24 hours, and 

 shocks gradually ceased. One bad shock on 15th, and 

 three of the explosions out of whole number were very 

 bad. — Vigne's Travels, Kashmir, i, 281. 

 „ July 8th. — Calcutta. — Three shocks ; lasted two minutes ; appeared to 



2 p.m. be from east to west. — Asiat. Jour., xxvii, 88, (1829.) 



2 p.m. Mymensingh. — Three shocks, apparently from north to 



south ; the last shock most severe. Another shock 12 

 minutes afterwards. — Ibid. 

 „ 2 — 14 — 4 p.m. Sylhet. — Sharp ; lasted one minute : mean time given,— 



Ibid. 

 „ July 20th. — Bhooj.— Nearly emptied water out of a tumbler which was 



1 P.M. half full. East to west ; violent.— Asiat. Jour., xxvii, 



227, (1829) ; L. and B. Jahrb., 1833, 125. 

 „ Aug. 22nd. — Malabae Coast. — Smart shock felt all along Coast. At 



Vingorla, bungalows violently shaken ; lasted quarter of a 



minute, with loud rumbling noise. — Asiat. Jour., xxv 



377, (1828.) 

 „ September 18th. — Calcutta. — Smart double shock ; vertical. — Ibid, 370 • L. 



7-15 a.m. and B. Jahrb., 1833, 125. 



„ October 8th. — Dacca and vicinity. — Pour distinct shocks in succession ; 

 5 p.m. lasted about quarter of a minute ; appeared to be from 



south to north. — Asiat. Jour., 1828, xxv, 509. 

 „ October 29th.— Nepal.— Von Hoff quotes no authority for the statement 



2 A.M. he gives of this earthquake, but from his accounts, which 



correspond in all particulars with that given in the Asiatic 

 Journal for the earthquake of October 1826, in Nepal, it 

 is evident that the same event is referred to. — Brit. Ass. 

 Catal., 1854, 197. 



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