1§33.] Further particulars of the Earthquake in Nepal. 637 
on this side of it, was alone the theatre of the earthquake’s presence, 
and that it was not even in the slightest degree felt beyond a very 
short distance on the Tibetan side of those huge mountains. The 
Embassy was at Lassa, on the 26th of August, when and where the 
shock was not experienced. At Digarchi, in the following month, it first 
received accounts of its occurrence from Nepal; to the inhabitants of 
that place the circumstance was known only from reports brought from 
this side of the mountains ; along the road from Digarchi, the answer to 
all inquiries was the same, ‘‘ No earthquake on the 26th of August,” 
and not until its arrival at Tingri was it found that the shock had 
been felt. Tingrz is a small Chinese post, immediately beyond the 
great Himalaya, and the first stage on the table land (as it is called) 
of Tibet, going from hence to Lassa, (by the Kéti or eastern pass 
from the valley of Nepal.) From Tingrz to Kirung, a distance of 
8 or 10 marches, the route is nearly due west, running along; and 
through the northern side of the Himalaya, and throughout this tract, 
though but thinly inhabited, authentic reports of the occurrence of the 
shock were received. By Kirung (the eastern pass from the valley 
into Bhote), the Mission penetrated the great range, and at each stage 
(four in number through the pass), intelligence of the occurrence was 
communicated by the few individuals who inhabit that wild and sterile 
region. But such information was not required, asits effects were 
sufficiently manifest : in the village of Kirung itself, supposed to con- 
tain 400 houses, 60 were fairly demolished, and many more seriously 
injured : two men had been killed under the ruins of their houses, and 
about a dozen wounded. From the exit of the pass to Kathmandé 
there are no towns along the route, and scarcely any villages ; but at 
many places, insulated houses of the mountaineers had been thrown 
down, and the precipitous banks of hills and mountains had been 
hurled into the subjacent valleys. 
This shews the extent of damage done towards the north, and ena- 
bles us to fix upon the line of Tingré (Lat. 28°) as the northern 
limit, of the earthquake’s presence, and reports would shew that of 
Jabalpir and Calcutta to have been the southern one. Rangpir* 
defines the east and Dehli the west. 
North-east from Kathmandt, as far as Dilka and Kuti, the violence 
of the shock would seem to have been greater than in the valley. West 
from Kathmandu it diminished at every step. At Gorkha, ‘only two 
houses were destroyed ; at Palpa, none; and at Dot/, on the borders of 
Kemaon, the shock was felt, but not by any means severely. It will 
* Mr. Wa TERs informs me that it was also felt at Chittagong.—Epb. 
