34 Scientific Intelligence. [Jan. 



IX. — Scientific Intelligence. 



I. — Extract of a letter from Leiut. Alex. Barnes, dated Lahore, 23rd 

 January, 1832. 



" As you will have perceived by the date of my letter, I have crossed the fron- 

 tier, and am now at Lahore. An event occurred here last night, which will, I am 

 sure, prove of interest to you — a severe shock of an earthquake. There were two 

 distinct vibrations, the last continuing for about 10 seconds, with alarming vio- 

 lence. The priucipal shock occurred at 11 p. m. after we had retired to bed, and 

 were asleep. The door of my apartment and all the furniture were shaking with 

 a rattling noise, when I awoke and ran into the open air. The house in which we 

 are lodged is a most substantial dwelling of two stories, built of bricks and chunam, 

 and the garden-house of Mr. Allard ; yet it was shaken most violently. 



" I am informed by the Chevalier, that earthquakes are of frequent occurrence 

 in this city, particularly during winter; but he does not remember so violent a 

 vibration as in the one I have just mentioned. The shock was from east to west, 

 or rather S. E. to N. W. The lofty minarets of this city afford however convin- 

 cing proof that there can have been no very violent commotion of nature in 

 Lahore within these 200 years. The earthquakes of Kashmir are frequent, and 

 the natives inform me, that the shocks are more violent nearer the mountains. 



" I should mention, that the atmosphere had indicated nothing unusual before the 

 earthquake, nor did the barometer undergo any variation before or after it. The 

 Thermometer stood at 37°; for the last 10 days it has been four degrees below 

 the freezing point every morning at sun-rise, a much greater depression than I had 

 expected in the Punjab, where it rose to 102° daily when I was here last July." 



2. — Population of Allahabad. 

 The following estimate of the population of the town of Allahabad was drawn up 

 by the native officers of police, under the magistracy of G. Brown, Esq. in 1824, as 

 an accompaniment to Major (then Captain) Irvine's map of the city ; and although 

 evidently not made with particular attention to accuracy, as the proportion of 

 males and females sufficiently proves, yet, in the absence of a more minute census 

 it is worthy of being placed on record among the statements of a similar nature 

 already published in the Gleanings. Contrary to custom, it is considerably in 

 excess of the statement given in Hamilton's Hindustan, which makes the population ' 

 of Allahabad, in 1803, only 20,000. The town itself does not seem to have been 

 on the increase, but rather to have suffered in size and importance : an extensive 

 suburb, Kydgunj, has however sprung up between it and the fort, but this is not 

 included in the present census. 



Mehala. Houses. Mehala. Houses. Hi?idds. Musulmans. 



Purani Nukhas, 127 Ganga DasChouk, 65 



Thatheii-bazar, 103 Mahajani tola, 143 



Chouk, 100 Tripaolia, 40 



Bajaza-bazar, 45 Unchi mandei, 227 M. F. M. F. 



Rani mandei, 123 Gosain tola, 157 g£° *^*>. 



Khatri tola, 151 Chak Mehala, 94 ^ £ ^^ 



Uti-Suyia, 112 _ _H 



Total of the Kotwali Thana, 1487 5072 3044 



