

PART I. 

 RECORD OF OBSERVATIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 KANGRA-KULU EPICENTRAL AREA. 



This portion of the country affected by the earthquake fell to my 

 lot to investigate. It will be well at the outset to indicate briefly 

 the route taken. (See map, PL 30.) 



I first proceeded to Lahore, where I halted to consult the local 



Route followed Government, and also to meet my colleague Mr, Pas- 



by the author. coe ^ an( j arran g e f or y s separate sphere of work. 



From Lahore I took train on 12th April to Pathankot, the nearest 

 railway station to the centre of damage; thence by to)nja (mail cart) 

 to Shahpur, situated among the foot hills of the Sub-Himalaya, which 

 was then a busy base of operations for relief and reconstruction parties. 

 From Shahpur I proceeded to the heart of the convulsed area at Dharm- 

 sala and Kangra. where 1 spent eight days investigating the terrible 

 effects there displayed. Thence I turned south to Ranital. Jawala- 

 mukhi and Dera Gopipur, crossing thereby a descending scale. of damage 

 similar, but in reversed order, to the ascending scale between Pathan- 

 kot and Dharmsala. I next returned to Kangra, and thence jour- 

 neyed E. N. E. to Palampur. which 1 used as a centre for traversing in 

 various directions. From there I proceeded to Mandi via Baijnath, 

 Dhelu, Guma, Jhatingri, l.'rla, and Drang. From Mandi I went to 

 Kataula, thence crossed the Dulchi pass into the Lower Himalaya of 

 the Kulu Valley at Bajaura, and traversed up the valley of the Beas 

 to Sultanpur. Thence with a party organised by the Assistant Com- 

 missioner, Mr. Calvert, into the higher valleys of the Parbati river, 

 first over the Borso pass to Channi, Jari aiid Manikarn, and thence 

 returning via Rashole, Malaria and Naggar. From Naggar I. returned 

 down the Kulu valley to Larji, visiting the enormous landslips and 

 damraed-up valleys of that part. Thence to Manglaur and JibJhi, and 

 thence over the Jalori pass to Kot, Chawai, Dalash, and Luri in the 



