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1852. January 24th.— Uppeb Sind. Muebee Hills.— Duration brief, but was 



3-45 A. M. severe, causing death to a large number, especially in the 



Murree bills ; fort of Kabun destroyed, and people with 



herds taking shelter in a cave in the hills buried ; 350 



people destroyed. Direction east to west. — Trans. Geogr. 



Soc, Bombay, x, 284; Perry Bull. Brussells Acad., 



1853, xx, 40. 



„ February 9th.-~ Calcutta, Sebampoee, &c— Slight shock.— Friend of 



1-55 p. M. India. 



„ March 31st.— N.-W. Provinces, Meebut.— Severe shock ; felt strongly 

 at Meerut; clocks and watches (?) stopped ; panes of glass 

 smashed to pieces. — Friend of India ; Perry, loc. cit. 



„ May . — Daejiling, &c. — Threw down several thousand square 



yards of south-western face of Eunchinjinga. — Shertvill, 

 Jour. Asiat. Soc, Beng., xxii, 540. 



„ August | 9th. — Dacca.— Preceded by a dead sound ; shock strong ; oscilla- 



4-37 a. m. tion lasted fifteen seconds ; strong all that time. Abbe 



K/uch says : — ■" I was in bed at the time, the bed lying 



south to north ; shocks appeared to come from north-west ; 



some said from north-west, some south. " — Perry, loc. cit. 



1854. November? — Bombay. — Slight shocks before 1st December. — Perry. 



1855. August 26th. — Singapore. — Not severe. — Asiat. Jour. 



„ September 18th. — Amaeapooea. — Slight. — Yule's Narrative, App.,34,9. 

 „ October 5th. — Amaeapooea. — Slight. — Ibid. 



1856. March 17th. — Madtjea. — Near midnight ; noise seemed to come from east 



to west. — Bomb. Geogr. Soc, xiii. 

 „ April 7th. — Kangea, (Simla, Kotghtje. — Four shocks at Kangra, 

 one rather sharp ; slight at Simla. At Kotghur, walls 

 cracked and chimneys injured. — Friend of India. 

 „ August 11th. — Teevandeum. — Low rumbling sound from south and east, 

 5-51 p. M. about three seconds before the shock; shock and noise 



twenty seconds. 

 „ August 25th. — Teevandettm. — Another at 4-25-10 ; one or two more in 

 4-25 p. M. the month. — Broun, Brit. Ass. Pep., 1860 ; Trans., 74. 



September 1st. — Teavancoee. — North-west by north to south-east by 

 0-25 Noon. south ; pendulum 17 feet long swung for four minutes. — ■ 



Broun, Trans. Geogr. Soc, Bombay, xiii, App. C. 



1857. August 16th. — Ceylon.— (? 14th). None said to have occurred since Feb- 



ruary 1848. — Friend of India. 



1 858. March 16th, — Balasoee. — A short pounding from the south, with usual 



7-8 a. m. rumbling noise. — Trans. Bomb. Geogr. Soc. 



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