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A. D. 



1848. April 26th. — Felt also at Deesa, Ahmedabad, Cambay, Mundlaisir, 



Sehore, Bhopal, Pahlunpur, &c. 

 „ January 3rd. — Khyouk-Phyoo. — Severe sbock: damaged civil magazine and 

 also sluice of salt golab. — Friend of India ; also Perry. 



„ November 30lli. — Calcutta. — Sbock said to bave been vertical ; not felt at 

 12-2 Midnight. Serampore. — Ibid. 



1849. January 22nd. — Calcutta. — Sligbt shock. — Ibid. 



8-15 a. m. Gowhattt District. — 'Sharp shock. At Jogee lasted nearly- 



one minute. At Burpettah (8 o'clock) the movement 

 commenced by a slight nndulation of the soil, accom- 

 panied by a dead sound, which continued for a minute, 

 and terminated by a violent shock from north to south ; 

 followed by a second which caused the bells to ring ; lasted 

 altogether ] to 1| minute. — Perry ; Mem. Dijon Acad., 

 2 Ser., Tom. 1, p. 15, <$fc, Jour. Asiat. Soc, Peng., 

 xviii., 172. 



„ January 23rd. — Jogee, Bubpettah.— Another strong shock from south-east 



9 p. m. to north -west. At Burpettah did not occur until 11 o'clock 



and seemed to come from north ( ? a different shock) from 



Himalaya and not from the Cossia hills. — Jour. Asiat. 



Soc, Peng., xviii, 172. 



„ January 26th. — Jogee- — Sharp ; long and in same direction as preceding ; 



5 a. m. the noise resembled that of heavy artillery. — Ibid. 



6 a. M. Bubpettah. — Two slight shocks. At Gowhatty, they were 



preceded for two or three seconds by a sound which con- 

 tinued for about the same time after the ground ceased to 

 undulate. — Friend of India. 



February 27th. — Dabjiling. — Very sharp ; many well-built walls cracked. — 

 9-10 p. m. Hooker's Jour., i, 276. 



February 28th. — Titalya. — Three sharp jerking shocks from the south, with 

 9-8 P. M. hollow rambling sound : felt at Darjiling at 9h. 10m. — 



Ibid, i, 276. 



April 24th. — East Indies ? — Perry, loc. cit. 



November 23rd. — Tbavancoee. — From west-north-west to east-south-east. — 

 Trans. Bombay Geogr. Soc, xiii, App, c, 9. 



December 26th.— Bombay.— Very slight. — Perry, Bull. Acad. Belg., xvii, i, 

 225. . 



1850. May 7th. — Calcutta, &c. — A hot blast of wind, said to have been 



accompanied by an earthquake, and subsidence of a tract 

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