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to South- West, and lasted about three seconds, accompanied with a 

 rumbling noise, like distant thunder. 



" The weather for the last three days has been very sultry, with great 

 masses of heavy dark clouds in the North : but this morning about 

 7 o'clock a thunder-storm passed from North to South- East, with heavy 

 rain, continuing for upwards of two hours ; it was perfectly calm at the 

 time of the shock, but the wind rose immediately afterwards, blowing 

 in sudden and heavy gusts from the North-East, with distant thunder 

 from the Westward. 



"No damage has been done that I am aware of, but the natives were 

 much alarmed ; some, who were at work on the road before my house, 

 threw down their tools and ran away." — Bengal Hurkaru, 10th June. 



11. 12. 13. Earthquakes of the \5th, \6th and 17 th June, 1843.— 

 This series of shocks was experienced in Assam. The first, that of the 

 15th, is thus noted in Captain Hannay's Register — " At 11 a.m. a smart 

 shock of an Earthquake, with a vertical motion." 



The second, that of the 16th, is thus described in a letter from Jeypur : 

 " On the 16th, fifteen minutes past 8 p.m. we felt the most severe shock 

 of an Earthquake I have noticed in Assam ; we had a slight shock the 

 day previous at noon." Mr. Masters, in a list of Earthquakes felt in 

 Assam, forwarded to me by Major Jenkins, the Commissioner, to whom 

 I am indebted for many similar acts of kindness, thus notices the same 

 shock — " At 8h. 45m. p.m. a smart shock at — ." 



The last of the series is described in Captain Hannay's Register in the 

 following terms : — " June 17th, 8 p.m. a very smart shock ; at first slight 

 and followed by a severe one, motion undulating, and from the position 

 of a clock which was stopped, must have come from S. W. or W. It 

 lasted altogether about a minute ; the weather rainy, with occasional light 

 squalls from S. W. These shocks were felt at Delava, Jaipur, and Sa- 

 cherah ; that of this date at a few minutes past 8, reported by the Officer 

 at Sacherah to have thrown down a portion of the bank of the Bur- 

 rumpooter." 



14. Earthquake of the Mth June, 1843. — This shock is of interest, as 

 being the only instance of an Earthquake in Ceylon of which any notice 

 has been obtained ; reference is made in one of the extracts that follow 

 to a shock in 1823, that affected this Island, and these two cases are all 

 that have as yet been found on record. 



The following extract from the "Colombo Observer" of the 19th 



