56 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA. EARTHQUAKE. 



lie bad to hold on to the branches of trees to steady himself when the earthquake 

 was at its most violent point. He saw the chimney on the N. face of Col. 

 Rennick's house fall due N. Flower-pots also fell over in that direction. Being 

 r deaf he does not offer any opinion on the sounds. Road from Bajaura to 

 Naggar impassable. Had to ride along the alluvial bed of the river. Fissures 

 there chiefly E. and W. Other fissures on slopes. At Naggar his house hardly 

 damaged at all [probably by beiog protected by being in a bay of the hills and on 

 solid rock.] A chief characteristic of many of the aftershocks, as contrasted with 

 the big shock, .was that they commenced with a strong vertical upward thrust, or 

 push, followed by a gentle horizontal vibration. 



Through the kindness of Colonel Rennick I was able to examine his 

 house and other buildings. The former was situated on the high 

 Colonel Re nick's pl a t eau P af t of the valley deposits formed of sub- 

 house and other recent gravels, which as already mentioned are* very 

 buiidmgs. extensive along the course of the Beas river. The 



house is a solidly built double-storied structure made of selected flat 

 slabs of rock. Its upper storey was damaged, but not severely. The 

 guest-house, which lay with its long axis N. W. by N. had suffered 

 as to its end walls of the upper storey, but the side walls were standing. 

 A solidly built stone dove-cot had been turned through an angle of 5° 

 in a direction with the hands of a watch. Its lower part was shaken 

 to pieces, but its upper part, supported on timbers from below, had 

 stood. It had been repaired as it stood without taking down, and with 

 the, twist remaining in it. Servants' houses, bazar, and the surrounding 

 hamlets showed varying damage, but mostly severe. Wherever houses 

 had fallen it was apparent that the building material was chiefly round 

 river boulders and mud mortar. Altogether the damage was about 

 equal to that of Mandi. 



The Shiva temple at Bajaura, a very ancient well built sikra of cut 



stone, 800 to 900 years old, had been shifted a little 

 Temple. t ii i • ii i 



laterally by many an ancient earthquake, as shown 



by the discontinuous sections of the doorway pilasters. It had suffered 



very slightly from the present earthquake. The priest showed me one 



fresh horizontal plane of separation only, high up on the lower part of 



icture. The roughly built quarters round the temple were ruined, 



