fl2 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



and earthquake-resisting qualities of a* wooden one. In the figure 

 the shaded part is stone (fig. 22). 



Fig. 22. 



In pi. 14, fig. 1, is illustrated this hill type of house structure. 

 The central four-storied tower is built very nearly Kat-ki-Kuni but it 

 shows the uppermost storey and roof destroyed, probably owing to 

 decay, as the building was old. 



Shortly before reaching Tipri village, near Danogi, we crossed 

 several well-marked bergschrund-like fissures separating the rocky part 

 of the hill from the talus and soil-covered fields below, and superposed 

 one above the other. Immediately above Tipri to the north there was 

 a much fissured quartzite cliff with a stream of very muddy water 

 issuing from it which was said to have run muddy since the earth- 

 quake, nearly 7 weeks before. The fissure could not be traced con- 

 tinuously into the low ground in the vicinity. Of the surrounding 

 villages those on gravel banks seemed to have suffered most. Many 

 on exposed spurs of solid rock had escaped wonderfully. 



During our second march from Channi to Jari the rocks, which 

 are exposed the whole way, gradually take on a 

 more nletamorphic aspect and become true mica 

 schists, frequently with garnets, and white quartzites and quartz- 

 schists. The precipitous quartzitic scarps of Gagyani Dhar on the 

 N. E. slopes of the Shat Nal, which enters the Parbati river from 

 a S. E. direction, were seen to have been much scored by land- 

 slips, a few of which may be recognised in the distant view of the 

 valley beyond Tipri village (see pi. 14, fig. 1). In the neighbourhood 



Rock avalanches of ^ ari a * so > wnere r ° c k s along the same strike 

 in the Maiana glen, come into prominence, and where the wild and 



