45 MIDDLEM1SS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE, 



to the villages which could be seen to be half down. They were 

 situated on alluvium. The same contrast was noticeable 5 miles before 

 reaching Dhelu. 



At Dhelu the travellers' bungalow was standing though the chimney- 

 had fallen. 



Between Dhelu and Guma the road approaches the main boundary 

 fault lying near the S. W. foot of a distinctive and steep little con- 

 tinuous ridge striking N. W. — S. E. and finally closing up in this 

 direction all that might structurally be con&idered as a part of the 

 Kangra Valley. The villages and hamlets scattered along the way 

 are built very roughly of irregular lumps of rock set in dried mud 

 and with thatohed roofs. About one-half of these cabins were down. 

 About 2 miles from Dhelu, on the way, there were many cracks and 

 fissures across the road. Near Guma many small landslips were seen 

 scarring the hillsides in the vicinity of the main-boundary fault, 

 especially where steep crags of limestone occur. At Guma itself the 

 shops and houses are chiefly stone-built below, and with wooden super- 

 structure. These were generally half ruined, and some had collapsed 

 altogether. 



At the Guma salt mines the salt-bearing pebbly and earthy layers 

 strike W.N.W. — E.S.E. in a nearly vertical anti- 



Guma Salt M^es. , M . 



chne outcropping beneath rocks consisting of epidi- 



o rites, amygdaloidal trap and white quartzite. The former, imme- 

 diately associated with the salt, are brightly coloured a brick-red r pale 

 purple, or greenish gray, and during the earthquake gave way in 

 numerous slips, bringing down with them much of the rocks above. 

 The rock-salt is said to continue as a bed from here to Drang, but 

 obscured by talus and soil-cap. 



Jhatingri lies on the crest of the little ridge alluded to in the last- 

 paragraph but one, at an elevation of about 6,000 



Jhatingri. ft ^ ^^ of Mund j ugeg ^ ag ft ^1].. station, 



and had just built a large bungalow there. It lay with its long axis 





