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itself, when houses began again, one or two of which were partially 

 ruined. 



At Naggar itself, the "castle," which is an extensive and ancient 

 House damage at native built timber-bonded house, the residence of 

 Naggar. the Assistant Commissioner, had suffeied on the 



side towards the river which is rather steep. It presented many 

 assures in the walls and soil along the line of the decliv ty and was 

 not in a permanently habitable conditi The Executive Engineer's 

 house, a double-storied modern building, a mile away on the nearly 

 hori .ontal gravel terraces, had not been much damaged except in its 

 upper story. On the other hand Colonel Rennick's house at Naggar, 

 which is situated on a spur from the main range with a steep slope to 

 the N., had been much more conspicuously fissured, and much damage 

 was done to furniture and other articles within. General Osborn's 

 house, placed in a little bay in the hills and fixed on solid rock, had 

 almost entirely escaped the shock ; and its owner told me that 

 nothing inside was damaged, not even pictures, crockery, or glass. 

 It was a well-built modern house, stone below and wood above. 

 Among the native houses the damage done was irregular, but I should 

 judge not greater as a whole than at Jari, Manikarn or Malana. 



Whilst he, e, a point on the main range, 8 miles due W. of Naggar 

 Fojal Nullah dust at the head of the Fojal Nullah, was seen to be 

 oIoud * giving off a dense black dust smoke in a thin as- 



cending column, and I was informed by Mr. W. H. Donald, Executive 

 Engineer in Kulu, that a similar dust cloud was seen at the same spot 

 on 24th May 1894, and that it kept rising for four months afterwards. 

 Tt was accompanied by a flood which did some damage in the lower 

 parts of the nullah. On the day of the present earthquake also the 

 water of the same nullah where it joined the Beas river ran black 

 with mud in suspension. 



A number of aftershocks were experienced here during my stay 

 from 28th to 30th May (for which see list of aftershocks). 



Beyond Naggat to the north I did not personally investigate the 

 earthquake, but an account by Captain Banon, relating to this part 



