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1845. July 26th. — Seeampoee. — Another shock ; motion appeared to be from 



2 A.M. north. — Friend of India. 



„ August 6th. — Seeampoee. — A pretty smart shock. — Ibid. 



11-30 p.m. Stlhet. — Same shock felt severely at Sylhet ; several houses 



injured; also portico, &c, of church. — Ibid. 

 Gowhattt. — Ten or twelve shocks had been felt during the 

 preceding 48 hours (date, August 8th), one of them so 

 severe as to have knocked down the new church spire. — 

 Ibid. 

 Midnapoee. — A letter states that the earthquake of the 16th 

 (? Gtnj was immediately followed by an iuundation of the 

 Cossye, more severe than had previously been known. 

 (The connexion of the two phenomena is not established.) — 

 Ibid. 

 Gowhattt. — Shocks very frequent ; some very severe ; 18 

 felt in one week ; rumblings of earth incessant. For last 

 week these commotions have proceeded from the south. — 

 Ibid. 

 „ August 22nd.— Gowhattt. — Severe; lasted about half a minute; motion 

 12-30 Noon. tremulous ; no undulations ; day hot ; no rain ; rumbling 



sound, as of distant thunder. — Ibid. 

 „ 3-5 p. M. — Gowhattt. — Another shock : slight. — Ibid. 



, August 24th. — Gowhattt. — Smart shock : earth said to have opened and 

 6. A.M. thrown up water near the hills. The direction of all 



these shocks is said to have been from west-north-west 

 to east-south-east ; some said north to south. — Ibid. 

 „ October 28th. — Sylhet. — A smart shock ; lasted 20 seconds. — Ibid. 



1846. May 27th. — Nebbudda. — At foot of a hill called Dhumoh-pahari, a tre- 



mendous noise and rumbling in hill ; in morning, hill 

 found to have opened and engulphed trees of immense 

 size, supposed to have 'been a landship, but found not to 

 be so. Dhumoh-pahari (smoking mountain) is 500 feet 

 above level of plain. No traditions of previous eruption ; 

 hill rent for f ths of a mile. — Jour. Asiat. Soc, Ben- 

 gal, xvi, 380. 



„ October 17th to 19th. — Mtmensingh. — Torrents of rain during previous week. 

 From the morning of the 16th to 10 a. m. of 19th, no less 

 than 15 shocks, with five or six more occurring at 

 night. 

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