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EARTHQUAKES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. [Ch. XXVIII. 



The principal town, Bhooj, was converted into a heap of 

 ruins, and its stone buildings Avere thrown down. The move- 

 ment was felt over an area having a radius of 1,000 miles 

 from Bhooj, and extending- to Khatmandoo, Calcutta, and 

 Pondicherry.^ The vibrations were felt in North-west 



miles 



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minutes 

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ake at Bhooj. At Ahmedabad 

 Sultan Alimed nearly 450 rears 



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before^ fell to tlie ground, attesting how long a period bad 

 elapsed since a shock of similar violence had visited that 

 point. At Anjar, the fort, with its tower and guns, were 

 hurled to the ground in one common mass of ruin. Tbe 



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shocks continued until the 20th ; when, 30 miles north-wes 

 from Bhooj, the volcano called Denodur is said by some to 

 have sent forth flames, but Captain Grant, when in Cntch in 



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1838, was unable to authenticate this statement. 



^^ See Asiatic Journal; vol. i 



