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for 3 minutes," and the earth " wave ai:)pearcd to travel from east to west." 



One of the gentlemen who wrote to my friend, says, he was sleeping 

 at the time, and being suddenly awakened by the earthquake, he ran into his 

 bathroom to observe the tub. In this, the water was oscillating and had 

 wetted its sides 5 inches vertically above the level shown when at rest. 

 Hanging plants and a bird cage in the verandah set in motion by the earth- 

 wave swung to the north and south, a direction corresponding to that 

 marked by the water in the tub. 



As to duration the same observer thinks the time given in the local 

 paper excessive, and that it could not have been many seconds, perhaps 30. 

 He does not state that any sound-wave was heard. 



A wall in his house was cracked and the filling of an archway showed 

 a comj^lete separation all round the arch. In the city many old houses fell 

 and one in falling was reported to have killed three men. 



Mr, Scott, R. E. of Jhelum, heard from Lahore that two friends play- 

 ing at billiards in the latter station observed a N. E. — S. W. oscillation 

 in the lamp-frame above the table, on the occurrence of the shock, which 

 took jDlace at noon, the same time as in Jhelum. 



Ferozpur. Although at Lahore the earthquake passed unnoticed by 

 at least one person, in a station so near as Ferozpur, according to a cor- 

 respondent of the " Pioneer," something like a panic occurred. He writes 

 — " The first shock was quite violent enough to cause a very sensible move- 

 ment on the earth's surface, and the dull rumbling noise was so unusually 

 loud as to attract general attention. Half a minute after came the second 

 shock, a very rude one indeed, making floors upheave, walls oscillate, and 

 beams and rafters start and crack. Every one rushed into the open air 

 only to find the ground shivering under their feet. The third shock 

 was gentler, the tremor of the earth, however, continued for a long time, 

 and it was fully five minutes if not more from the beginning of the first 

 shock till the last trembling passed away. No buildings fell, but many 

 beams were started, and some walls were cracked." 



The time oi, the first shock is not given. 



Simla. If Madras time is kept at this station, as seems probable, the 

 shock was felt there at the same general time as elsewhere, i. e., one minute 

 past 12, noon. See " Pioneer" March 6th, 1878. The rejDorts in this paper 

 say, the earthquake shook Simla to its foundations, and was one of the longest 

 continued ever known there. '' The wave or movement came first from east by 

 south and lasted for about a minute, when it shifted to north-east, and increased 

 in intensit}' from a tremor to a roll, the shocks occurring without inter- 

 mission for nine full minutes, the last being at ten minutes past noon. It 

 was the third shock within six months, each being severe." 



The coincidence apparent as to time would seem to identify the shocks 



