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EARTHQUAKES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. [Ch. XXVIH. 



land, 2,000 square miles in area, into an inland sea, or lagoon. 



Neither tli 

 niovement 



fort of Sindree, one of the four toAvers, the north-western, 

 still continuing to stand ; and, the day after the earthqnake, 



=^^ Fig. 106. 



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Fort of Sindree, on the eastern branch of the Indus, hofore it was submerged by 

 the earthquake of 1819, from a sketch of Capt. GrincUay, made in 1808.-^ 



the inhabitants, wlio liad ascended to the top of this tower. 



t 



/ 



•Inimed 



the inhabitants of Sindree saw, at the distance of 5|- miles 

 from their village, a long elevated mound, where previously 

 there had been a low and perfectlj level plain. (See Map, 

 fig. 105.) To this uplifted tract they gave the name of 'Ullah 

 Bund,' or the ^ Mound of God,' to distinguish it from several 

 artificial dams previously thrown across the eastern arm or 

 the Indus. 



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east to west, running parallel 



'^ I was indebted to my friend the late 



Sir Alexander Burnes for the accom- 

 panying sketch (fig. 106) of the fort of tained by 



It has been ascertained that tins 

 rds of fifty miles in length from 



to that line of subsidence 



Sindree, as it appeared eleven years 

 before the earthtpake. 



t Several particulars not given in 

 the earlier edition were afterwards ob- 



from personal com- 

 Sir A. Barnes in 



me 

 mnnication with 

 London. 



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