612 Register of Indian and Asiatic Earthquakes [No. 164. 



Our next notice of the shock is from Bellary (Lat. 15° 5' N. Long. 

 76° 59' East), where the following phenomena were observed, and are 

 detailed in the '■ Madras Spectator :" — " We are indebted to a friend at 

 Bellary for notice of the shock of an Earthquake which was felt there 

 on the 1st instant, at about a quarter before 5. That morning a rumbling 

 noise was heard described as resembling the well known sound (to rail- 

 way travellers) of blowing off the steam from the engine. The sound 

 increased in loudness to that of a moderate peal of thunder, and with it 

 an undulating motion was felt, which increased in intensity till the whole 

 cantonment shook. ' My bed,' says the writer, * trembled till I felt 

 almost giddy ; the sound then decreased, and with it the agitation sub- 

 sided.' The direction of the shock appeared to be from South- East to 

 North- West, the atmosphere seems to have sympathised with this sub- 

 terranean disturbance, the previous night having been a very stormy one, 

 and at 4 on Saturday morning it suddenly became oppressively hot 

 and still." 



I am indebted to H. Piddington, Esq. for the following interesting 

 notice by Captain Newbold, Madras Army, of the effects of the shock 

 of the 1st April 1843, at Kurnool. This notice ought to have preceded 

 that from Bellary, but it was accidentally omitted. 



"Kurnool, IZrd February, 1844. 



" Observing from the pages of your Journal that some researches 

 are being instituted into the phenomena of Earthquakes, the following 

 extract from my memoranda of an Earthquake that was felt here last 

 year, may add to the recorded data on this head. 



" Kurnool, Long. 78° 7' Lat. N. 15° 50' : approximate height above the 

 sea 900 feet. April 1st 1843, about 5 a.m. awakened by the shock of 

 an Earthquake, accompanied by a subterranean noise like that of the 

 rumble of Artillery at a distance. It lasted only some seconds ; the 

 noise appeared to come from the North-East, and died away to the S. W. 

 It appears to have been felt at Bellary, which is about seventy-three 

 miles direct distance W. S. W. from Kurnool, about the same time. There 

 was nothing particular in the state of the weather. The comet which 

 I first observed here on the 4th of the preceding month, was then 

 visible, and its advent had been accompanied by a sudden and unusual 

 rise of the Tumbuddra, which had swept off the numerous native gardens 

 in its bed, a catastrophe which both the Affghans and Hindoos of this 





