1845.] for the year 1843. 611 



North-East of this, and that the ground rocked so much that he ran to a 

 date tree for support ; but this moving also, he threw himself on the 

 ground, and did not venture to move till all was over. I suppose the 

 course of the Earthquake therefore to have been nearly South- West and 

 North-East ; and if you hear more of its beginning and ending, this may 

 serve to give you some idea of its course ; of the breadth of its influence 

 I have of course no idea. All yesterday was remarkably sultry and 

 oppressive, nor was there a breath of air all night, a very unusual thing 

 here. What between the earthquake and comet, the people here are 

 much perplexed, and wise Brahmins are prophesying wars, tumults, and 

 famines, to the terror of the lieges. 



" An old gentleman who has just called, informs me, there was an 

 Earthquake here, the year Tippoo was disposed of ! I have no means of 

 ascertaining the truth of this ; but is this country in the track of any 

 volcanic current or influence ? Certainly Earthquakes are not common 

 occurrences." 



The next place from which we have a notice of the shock, is Mucktul 

 (Lat. 16° 43' N. Long. 77° 35' East). This notice is contained in the 

 following extract from the "Madras Spectator" of the 26th April, 1843. 



" A correspondent at Mucktul has favoured us with the following 

 notice of the shock of an Earthquake felt there, as at Bellary and 

 Sholapore on the 1st of this month. We apprehended with our corres- 

 pondent, that the maximum intensity of the shock passed through 

 Bellary in a line parallel to the direction of the Western Ghauts, its 

 violence subsiding further Eastward, as at Mucktul. 



" The Earthquake was felt here very distinctly on the morning of the 

 1st about a quarter to 5 o'clock. The undulating motion was not suf- 

 ficiently perceptible to enable one to judge of the direction of the shock ; 

 here was merely a slight tremulous motion accompanied by a rumbling 

 noise similar to that of a carriage passing a drawbridge. I suspect 

 from your remark in your paper of the 12th instant, that its maxi- 

 mum point of intensity was at Bellary, or between this and Bellary. At 

 Singsoorgoor and Shorapore, both places nearer Bellary than this is, it 

 was felt much stronger than here ; but at Hydrabad, about one hundred 

 miles from this station, I suspect there was no shock, otherwise I should 

 have heard ; Bellary is also about one hundred miles from Mucktul. The 

 morning of the 1st was here also excessively hot and close." 



