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as also was another wood and stone built Devtas' temple situated a 

 ittle nearer the river. 



The travellers' bungalow was in a half ruined state. It was built 

 partlv of sun-dried bricks, and partly of flat blocks 



Travellers' bunga- r J r J 



l ow . of schistose slate. 



Route from Bajaura to Sultanpur, 



Samsi village, near the Buin suspension bridge across the Beas river, 

 was a great ruin. The suspension bridge was also 

 destroyed, the piers on each side having crumbled 

 away, and the wire ropes and foot-way having subsided into the swiftly- 

 flowing stream. This collapse was manifestly due to the use of rounded 

 river boulders in the masonry, instead of cut stone, as at Mandi. 



The hillsides enclosing the wide Kulu Valley were in many places 

 scored by landslips, especially as seen looking up the Parbati river 

 from its junction with the Beas. Schistose slates, quartz-schists and 

 quartzites prevail the w r hole way. 



Sultanpur, or Kulu town as it is also called, is largely situated on a 

 high plateau or tongue of sub-recent river-gravels 

 town) l between where the Beas river and the Sarvari river 



join. Like Bajaura, Samsi and other villages along the 

 valley bottom, it had especially suffered on account of its varied, mixed 

 and debased styles of architecture, the result of the influx of traders 

 from S. and N. The bazar buildings, being half modelled on the low 

 country style and half on the hill type (presently to be described), 

 possess none of the merits of either. The rounded river boulders used 

 in the walls were in fact not so effective even as sun-dried brick for 

 iesisting the earthquake, whilst the use of timber in the walls appears to 

 have been frequently indiscriminate, and often as a mere substitute for 

 stone and without it effectively holding the walls together by any 

 bonding process. Heavy slates for roofing were universal. 



Hence the damage to Sultanpur proper, especially the older part on 

 4ie W. slopes of the plateau, was very considerable (see pi. 13, fig. 1). 



