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creaked and strained so loudly, that I may have heen unable to notice any 

 sound-wave. I got up but could only move slowly, and after some delay in 

 securing my watch by which I was noting the time, I reached the outside 

 of the house, and heard the crash of chimneys falling at the neighbouring 

 bungalows, while the stones of the one belonging to the dak bungalow I 

 had been in, were all shaken asunder, though the chimney (a low one) did 

 not fall. A cup half filled with milk in my room had its contents violently 

 thrown out, and projected nearly to the distance of a foot on each side 

 towards the east and west. 



During the shock the vibration was so continuous or so quickly 

 repeated as to seem without intermission after the first one I have men- 

 tioned, and the motion died away more gradually than it commenced. I 

 timed its duration as 1 minute and 50 seconds from first to last. 



Doctor Grant, then acting Medical Officer of the station, who had left 

 me shortly before, was walking up an inclined open space when the shock 

 occurred ; he observed the ground to undulate and the trees to sway about 

 considerably, though there was no wind, he felt a sensation of nausea and 

 found it difficult to walk. Next he saw a man thrown from a ladder and 

 then a cloud of dust rising from the falling wall of a bungalow. On reach- 

 ing his own he found the wall cracked, also above an arch. 



Some time afterwards I was staying at another two-storied house in 

 this station which had suffered very much. Some of the walls were cracked 

 from near the ground to the roof ; the cracks passing through weak places, 

 such as openings for windows or dooi's, I noticed that it was in most cases 

 those walls which ran east and west that were cracked ; as if a short wave to 

 which they could not conform had passed longitudinally beneath them. 



No one in the place remembered an earthquake of such severity to 

 have occurred before. 



Rdtoalpindi. At this station the earthquake occurred immediately 

 after gun-fire (12, noon, Madras time), possibly a little later than at Abbotta- 

 bad, but the time kept there is scarcely to be relied upon to a minute. The 

 movement appeared to come from a direction north of west, to judge from the 

 observations of Dr. Henderson, and from the directions in which he found 

 water to have been thrown out of vessels. It lasted for over a minute. Dr. 

 Henderson is certain there was no sound-wave, but another person stated 

 that a low rumbling sound did precede the shock. 



Dr. Henderson felt the heaving of the earth very distinctly ; his little 

 boy fell down and asked what was the matter with the ground. 



Dr. C of the 10th Hussars was talking to the Mess Sergeant in the 



compound of the Mess, he did not recognise the occurrence as an earth- 

 quake, but felt sick and walked to a tree for support. On returning a 

 minute or two afterwards, the Sergeant said he too had felt sick, and asked 

 for medicine. 



