280 Memoir on Indian Earthquakes. [No. 136. 



4. Earthquake of the 4th July, 1842. 



A report of an Earthquake on the 4th July, was communicated to 

 me by Sergt. Buttress, Overseer on the Delhi Canal, through Capt. 

 Baker of Engineers. No other notice of this Earthquake has reached 

 me, but Sergt. Buttress gives the details so circumstantially, that I can 

 scarcely think he was mistaken, and the fact of his being the only one 

 to communicate an account of it, is in no degree remarkable, since 

 the interest in natural phenomena generally is in this country confined 

 to a very limited circle, and numbers of these pass without any record 

 at all. On the authority of Sergt. Buttress' letter, I therefore include 

 this Earthquake in the Register. 



Letter from Sergt. Buttress to Capt. Baker , Engineers, without date. 



Sir, — As some gentleman of Engineers, whose name and address I 

 have forgotten, has solicited information of any Earthquake that may 

 take place, I beg leave through you, Sir, should you be acquainted 

 with the name and address of the gentleman, to forward the following 

 notice of one that took place at Chotah Thannah, on Monday the 4th 

 of July, at 10 minutes to 3 o'clock p. m. by my watch, which I have 

 since ascertained by the mid-day gun at Delhi, to be five minutes too 

 slow, so that the time was five minutes to 3 o'clock. 



It lasted about thirty seconds, and was accompanied by a rumbling 

 noise, exactly like one of the water mills in Delhi. The motion was 

 a violent trembling, and the direction seemed to me to be from West 

 to East. The whole day had been dreadfully close, and scarcely a 

 breeze blowing ; but in the evening the wind rose, and has been very 

 fresh. From yesterday up to the present moment, a dust storm has 

 been blowing from the North-west. I have, &c. &c, 



W. Buttress, Sergt. 



Ovr. C. D. 



5. Earthquake of the 21st July, 1842. 



The Earthquake of the 2 1st July was experienced at Jellalabad, and 

 the following extract from the Agra Ukbar of the 4th August, gives 

 the only notice of it that has appeared. " A severe shock of an Earth- 

 quake was experienced at Jellalabad on the 21st July 1842, at a little 



