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ing to the accounts of those who experienced it. The ghurree at the 

 Treasury Guard struck 10 o'clock, as the shock was felt by many 

 persons, and one gentleman looked at his watch and found it was ten 

 minutes past 10 p. m. — suppose, as there is no way of getting the exact 

 time of the shock's occurrence, that it happened at 5 minutes past 10 

 p. m. It was so severe as to bring down pieces of plaster from the walls 

 of " Caroline Villa" and " Mount Pleasant ;" and the shock was succeed- 

 ed soon after by a slighter one, or perhaps it was but one shock with 

 a remission in the vibration. One person thought it came from the 

 South and passed on to the North. I account for the shock not hav- 

 ing been felt at my house where there was a party of seven at the time, 

 from its being constructed of wood, which from its greater elasticity is 

 not to be shaken to the same extent as a pile of bricks or stone. 



Yours, &c. A. Campbell. 



The following extract from the Englishman of the 16th Nov. de- 

 tails the effects of the Earthquake as experienced at B , a place fifty- 

 five miles East of Calcutta. 



" Arrived at B (fifty-five miles East of Calcutta on the Isa- 



mutta or Jaboona) at half- past 5 a. m. 12th Nov. and found Mr. 



and his family still in great alarm from the Earthquake, which they 



had experienced there on the previous night. Mr. ■ told me that 



immediately his family had retired at half-past 9, his dogs and those of 

 the neighbouring village began howling, and shortly after was a loud 

 rumbling, similar to that of carriages going over a draw-bridge. The 

 commencement of this was followed by a violent undulation of the 

 ground from North to South which actually rocked the house, and 

 ended by three or four hard shocks which threw open all the doors and 

 windows previously shut in for the night. The house (a puckah- built 

 upper-roomed one) cracked, and the plaister from several of the walls 

 and ceilings was thrown down. On examining the house by daylight 

 we found rents in several of the walls and arches of the house, and the 



verandah to the East separated from it. Mr. considered the 



Earthquake, from the first hearing of the rumbling noise to the last 

 shock, to have occupied about one minute of time. 



I was on the road to B in my palkee, in the first stage from 



Barraset, and did not feel the Earthquake, but I noticed at 8 p. m. to 



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