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MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE, 



trees. Great landslips have occurred along the road which winds down the hill- 

 side totally obliterating the track in some parts while other slips threaten, for 

 these low hills about Kangra are made up of clay, rounded boulders and conglo- 

 merate rocks easily displaced, and heavy rain would bring down masses of earth 

 and trees. 



Such is the scene now presented at Kangra, but one's imagination cannot picture 

 the horrors of trie actual calamity on the morning of the earthquake and those 

 which followed before help arrived. There wag no one left alive who could direct 

 operations for rescuing the people buried in the ruins or succouring those who 

 had been maimed and were yet alive. All the subordinate officials were killed. 

 No European was within reach and the people fled panic-stricken fearing that 

 yet worse terrors would envelope them. 



My own observations generally corroborate the above, and I am 

 Overthrown ob- able to add a few more details especially with refer- 

 ,octs * ence to overthrown objects. The following descrip- 



tion, which appeared in my preliminary account, may advantageously 

 be reproduced here. 



The old European cemetery at Kangra Bhawan lies in the middle 

 of a flat plain, and at the time of my visit exposed a number of 

 rectangular masonry pillars, overturned or broken with more regularity 

 of direction than I have seen elsewhere (see fig. 13). They comprise :— 





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(A) 



(C) 



(B) 

 Fig. 13. 



(A) Two small, rectangular upright tombs, 3 ft. high, by 1J ft. 



square. Fallen as a whole towards N. E. 



(B) A pair of gate-pillars, of dressed stone and lime-mortar out- 



side, with rubble within, 5 ft. high by 2y l 7 ft. square. 

 Fallen as a whole, one towards E. 25° N. and one towards 

 W 20° S. (i.e., nearly in opposite directions), 

 pair of piller-like tombs, constructed like the gate- 

 pillars, b\ ft. high by 3J ft. square. Not upset as a 

 whole, but shattered above the base into fragments. 



(C) A 



