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  OLDHAM; 
  GREAT 
  EARTHQUAKE 
  OF 
  1897. 
  

  

  The 
  sketch, 
  fig. 
  36, 
  gives 
  a 
  tolerably 
  typical 
  example 
  of 
  the 
  kind 
  of 
  damage, 
  

  

  '^^AiQ^-^ 
  

  

  Fig. 
  36. 
  House 
  at 
  Jamalpur, 
  facing 
  S 
  20 
  W. 
  

  

  though 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  injury 
  is 
  here 
  comparatively 
  slight. 
  The 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  house 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  sketch 
  faces 
  S 
  20 
  W. 
  

  

  The 
  chimneys 
  situated 
  upon 
  the 
  roofs 
  of 
  houses 
  have 
  given 
  way 
  without 
  

   exception, 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  noticed 
  that 
  whenever 
  the 
  lightning 
  conductor 
  has 
  been 
  

   bent 
  by 
  the 
  falling 
  structure, 
  it 
  is 
  in 
  a 
  westerly 
  direction. 
  This 
  is 
  all 
  the 
  more 
  

   remarkable 
  as 
  the 
  chimneys, 
  which 
  are 
  square, 
  have 
  their 
  diagonals 
  corresponding 
  

   with 
  the 
  axes 
  of 
  the 
  houses. 
  

  

  The 
  next 
  sketch 
  shows 
  a 
  house 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  western 
  front 
  presents 
  no 
  cracks 
  

   (the 
  north-east 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  house 
  has 
  totally 
  collapsed) 
  ; 
  the 
  lightning 
  conductor 
  

   is 
  seen 
  to 
  be 
  bent 
  in 
  exactly 
  the 
  same 
  direction. 
  

  

  Fi 
  . 
  37. 
  House 
  at 
  Jamalpur, 
  facing 
  W 
  20 
  N. 
  

  

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