636 Further particulars of the Earthquake in Nepal. [Dec. 



VI. — Further particulars of the Earthquake in Nepal. By A. Campbell, 

 Esq. Assistant Surgeon attached to the Residency. 



In pursuance of the attempt made before to note the destructive 

 effects of the earthquake of the 26th August last, throughout the valley 

 of Nepal, and its immediate neighbourhood, and with the hope of shew- 

 jng, as correctly as my information will permit, the probable seat or 

 central point of the commotion, I beg to offer the following memo- 

 randa of other places at which the shock was experienced, as well as 

 its comparative degree of intensity at each. 



The means of estimating the violence of this phenomenon are of 

 course most defective, if not wholly inadequate to the purpose ; but in 

 absence of better data, the ascertained amount of damage done to the 

 frail and perishable works of man, may be received as an index of its 

 intensity at one place, compared with that of another, and in conformity 

 to this mode, it would appear, that the most extreme violence of the 

 shock, as far as its occurrence is as yet known, was expended within a 

 tract of country extending from this side of the great Himalayan range 

 on the north, to the course of the Ganges on the south, and from the 

 Arun river (in the Nepal hills) on the east, to the western branches 

 of the Trisul Ganga on the west, comprising a space of about 200 

 miles from north to south, and 150 from east to west. In this space, 

 the valley of Nepal, though not geographically the centre point, is most 

 assuredly the portion that has suffered the greatest violence of the 

 calamity ; and, unless the inexplicable producing causes have been 

 expended in the frequent and severe shocks that have to this day con- 

 tinued to recur, we may from our experience of the progress of earth- 

 quakes in other parts of the world, with reason, as we ought with 

 resignation, look forward to further and more violent exhibitions of 

 the same terrible nature. 



In the notice of the earthquake by the Secretary of the Asi- 

 atic Society, in his Journal for August, he expressed a belief, 

 that the greatest intensity of the shock would be found to have occur- 

 ed beyond the Himalaya, in the direction of Lassa ; and judging by 

 the direction from which the shock was felt to have proceeded, and its 

 intensity in the valley of Nepal, such was the probability, though 

 other has turned out to be the fact, and that upon good authority. 



The recent return fromPekin of an Embassy from Nepal, to the court 

 of the Celestial Emperor, has furnished authentic information on this 

 subject, which otherwise might have been long wanting ; and the whole 

 tenor of it shews that the great Himalayan range itself, and the country 



