25 MIDDLEMISS: KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



the direction of the free edge of the steep slope below the churchyard 

 already mentioned. The tower and east end wall were fissured diago- 

 nally like the walls of the British barracks, showing strains due to 

 rocking about its long axis, and drag of the falling long walls. 



The bazar at the S. W. end of the cantonment ridge was a oom- 

 ii, S. W. end plete ruin, but not utterly destroyed. Many walls 

 of Cantonment. we re still standing especially those (see pi. 5, fig. 1) 



on the upper side of the slope. 



Forsythganj bazar lies about N. — S., the S. end beginning in a 

 Foisythganj little bay along the E. slopes of the cantonment 



bazar - ridge. It consists of a double row of shops with 



the road dividing them, the buildings being constructed in the usual 

 way, partly of sun-dried bricks especially in the lower stories and partly 

 of wood especially in the upper stories and verandahs. Heavy slate 

 roofs with a low pitch were everywhere apparent ( see pi. 7, fig. 1). 

 The view 13 taken from the south, and it shows the N. end of th8 

 bazar all down, at the S. end also the shops on the E. side of the 

 road are all in ruins, whereas those on the W. side of the road are 

 many of them still standing. The site especially at the N. end of the 

 bazar was a bad one on slipping surface debris of Nahan sandstones 

 and 3hales ; that to the E. of the road had a bad slope down hill, 

 whilst only where the shops stood which were preserved from the 

 earthquake was the site good. It seems to have b^en another case 

 of an earthquake shadow occurring in the angle of the little bay 

 already referred to. 



Dharmsala Civil Hill. 



Whilst some few private residences on the higher slopes, e.g., " Wel- 

 come Hall" have not utterly collapsed, though rent, fissured and 

 half ruined — as was also the case with some few houses on the higher 

 slopes of the cantonment hili— -McLeodganj bazar half-way down the 

 spur, the very large Kotwali bazar at the S. and lowest end of the 

 3pur, and most of the surrounding private residences were perhaps 

 more completely destroyed than anything on the cantonment hill. The 

 nvortaiity also seems to have been somewhat greater in proportion, and 



