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MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE, 



A great part of the N., E, and S. towers had fallen. Also the 

 house where the Rajah Azimulla Khan with one uncle, five cousins and 

 twenty-eight retainers perished, A. The tower B still stood, but was 

 badly fissured. C == high keep, not fallen. The N. E. wall of the 

 fort showed a horizontal crack (which also passed through the towers) 

 coinciding with the lowest shooting platform above where the wall was 

 thinner and loopholed. 



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F IG . 2.— Elevation of N. E. wall. 



In the centre of this wall a great hole had been made. The wall 

 just failed to rock over to the north-east. 



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Fig. 3.— Section of N. E. wall. 



Route between Shahpur and Dharmsala. 

 This line of country showed intense damage to the villages, hamlets 

 Intense damage an d lines of communication. The cart road, 2 

 Mits in * miles S- E. of Shahpur, showed small falls of steep 



cliffs by the side of a stream-bed. Nerti village, 3 miles from Shahpur, 

 was nearly all destroyed. All the upper stories had gone and most of 

 the lower as well. At three and a half miles from Shahpur, where 

 the road branches of! from the Kangra road and turns up the Khad 



