﻿APPENDIX 
  B. 
  34 
  t 
  

  

  and 
  2 
  of 
  letter 
  No. 
  692, 
  dated 
  the 
  26th 
  July 
  1897, 
  from 
  the 
  Officiating 
  Director 
  

   Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  India, 
  copy 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  forwarded 
  with 
  your 
  memorandum 
  

   No. 
  670-71, 
  dated 
  the 
  19th 
  August 
  1897. 
  

  

  2. 
  Fissures 
  in 
  the 
  earth 
  and 
  outpourings 
  of 
  water 
  and 
  sand. 
  — 
  This 
  pheno 
  a 
  

   nienon 
  was 
  not 
  uncommon 
  in 
  this 
  subdivision, 
  but 
  no 
  record 
  was 
  made 
  either 
  

   of 
  the 
  size 
  or 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  fissures 
  that 
  appeared. 
  In 
  Jorhat 
  town, 
  in 
  the 
  Dacca 
  

   patti, 
  the 
  earth 
  cracked 
  in 
  several 
  places, 
  and 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  the 
  cracks 
  not 
  being 
  more 
  

   than 
  6 
  or 
  7 
  feet 
  in 
  length 
  and 
  5 
  or 
  6 
  inches 
  broad, 
  water 
  and 
  sand 
  were 
  thrown 
  

   up 
  in 
  considerable 
  quantities. 
  In 
  the 
  Domgaon, 
  a 
  mile 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  town, 
  the 
  

   soil 
  was 
  much 
  broken 
  up, 
  and 
  between 
  one 
  and 
  two 
  hundred 
  fissures, 
  varying 
  

   from 
  a 
  few 
  inches 
  to 
  15 
  or 
  20 
  feet 
  in 
  length, 
  appeared. 
  The 
  largest 
  of 
  these 
  

   must 
  have 
  been 
  nearly 
  a 
  foot 
  broad. 
  Here 
  also 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  considerable 
  effusion 
  

   of 
  sand, 
  water, 
  and 
  mud. 
  

  

  The 
  largest 
  cracks 
  reported 
  were 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  Ladoigarh 
  road, 
  near 
  Nokachar 
  

   tea 
  estate, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  nearly 
  2 
  feet 
  in 
  breadth, 
  the 
  road 
  being 
  an 
  unbanked 
  

   one 
  ; 
  these 
  cracks 
  were 
  probably 
  due 
  to 
  a 
  fault 
  in 
  the 
  soil. 
  

  

  3. 
  No 
  information 
  has 
  been 
  received 
  of 
  landslips 
  in 
  the 
  hills. 
  

  

  Letter 
  No. 
  955G., 
  dated 
  Golaghat, 
  the 
  gth 
  September 
  /S97, 
  from 
  Lieutenant 
  

   W..M. 
  Kennedy, 
  I.S.C., 
  Assistant 
  Commissioner, 
  Golaghat, 
  to 
  the 
  Deputy 
  

   Commissioner 
  of 
  Si 
  bs 
  agar. 
  

  

  In 
  reply 
  to 
  your 
  memorandum 
  No. 
  670-71G., 
  dated 
  the 
  19th 
  ultimo, 
  for- 
  

   warding 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  letter 
  No. 
  692, 
  dated 
  the 
  26th 
  July 
  last, 
  from 
  the 
  Officiating 
  

   Director, 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  India, 
  directing 
  me 
  to 
  furnish 
  the 
  information 
  re- 
  

   garding 
  the 
  recent 
  earthquake, 
  called 
  for 
  in 
  paragraphs 
  1 
  and 
  3 
  of 
  that 
  letter, 
  I 
  

   have 
  the 
  honour 
  to 
  submit 
  the 
  following 
  reports. 
  

  

  Rangamati 
  mauza.— 
  h 
  fissure, 
  3 
  miles 
  long 
  and 
  from 
  1 
  to 
  3 
  feet 
  broad, 
  was 
  

   formed 
  from 
  the 
  old 
  Garhali 
  to 
  the 
  new 
  road 
  near 
  the 
  Dhansiri 
  river. 
  It 
  extended 
  

   for 
  about 
  3 
  miles, 
  and 
  sand 
  and 
  water 
  were 
  emitted 
  from 
  it 
  to 
  a 
  height 
  of 
  from 
  I 
  

   to 
  2 
  feet. 
  Near 
  the 
  Dhansiri 
  river 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  fissure 
  30 
  or 
  40 
  nals 
  in 
  length 
  and 
  

   6 
  or 
  7 
  nals 
  in 
  breadth. 
  The 
  surrounding 
  land 
  has 
  subsided 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  cubits. 
  In 
  

   Mohora 
  Bilota 
  village 
  near 
  Gela 
  Nadi, 
  a 
  fissure, 
  150 
  nals 
  in 
  length 
  and 
  1 
  or 
  2 
  

   inches 
  in 
  breadth, 
  was 
  formed. 
  In 
  Garaimari 
  chapari 
  a 
  fissure, 
  200 
  nals 
  long 
  

   and 
  5 
  or 
  6 
  inches 
  broad, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  chapari, 
  a 
  fissure, 
  120 
  nals 
  long 
  

   and 
  2 
  or 
  3 
  inches 
  broad, 
  were 
  formed, 
  from 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  sand 
  and 
  water 
  were 
  

   discharged. 
  Also 
  at 
  Baukula 
  village 
  a 
  fissure, 
  250 
  nals 
  long 
  and 
  4 
  or 
  5 
  inches 
  

   broad, 
  was 
  formed, 
  from 
  which 
  sand 
  and 
  water 
  were 
  emitted. 
  In 
  a 
  chapari 
  near 
  

   Tinsukia 
  a 
  fissure, 
  180 
  nals 
  long 
  and 
  4 
  or 
  5 
  inches 
  broad, 
  appeared, 
  vomitting 
  

   sand 
  and 
  water. 
  On 
  a 
  chapari 
  near 
  Dirai 
  suti 
  the 
  land 
  was 
  fissured, 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  opening 
  being 
  210 
  nals, 
  and 
  the 
  breadth 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  inches. 
  From 
  this 
  also 
  

   sand 
  and 
  water 
  were 
  discharged, 
  and 
  also 
  from 
  a 
  fissure 
  210 
  nals 
  in 
  length 
  and 
  3 
  

   or 
  4 
  inches 
  in 
  breadth 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  Botokoi 
  village 
  near 
  Bena 
  bhil. 
  In 
  

   this 
  mauza 
  there 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  other 
  fissures 
  too 
  in 
  other 
  chaparis 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  

   jungle 
  which 
  were 
  not 
  noticed. 
  

  

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