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The travellers' bungalow at Larji was seriously damaged and not 

 weather-proof, but the verandah could be used. 



So great is the shattering of the hill-spurs in the neighbourhood 



of this river focus that I anticipate considerable 



„ _ difficulties for many years to come alone this route 



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lear Larji. from Simla to Kulu. At any moment expensive 



bridges and miles of difficultly constructed road may 



be carried away by a fresh landslip. 



Ascending the deep rift of the Tirthan river from Larji, for about 

 4 miles to Barwar hamlet and the newly formed 



Damage to slopes ,,"'-, , T . , 



and villages be- ia ^ e ' tne same rocks as at Larji, together with 

 tween Larji and quartzites and quartz-schists continue, owing to 

 the general strike remaining constant. They also 

 present a similarly smashed condition, the limestone in particular 

 being much brecciated and having a crumbled and greatly weathered 

 aspect. The slopes also are very steep, and towering crags of lime- 

 stone have frequently discharged enormous rock avalanches into the 

 valley below. Twara, a hamlet of a few houses, had suffered severely, 

 and 6 out of 30 inhabitants had been killed. Kotla, a large village 

 with high, double-storied timber-bonded houses, had also been much 

 smashed a3 to its roofs and upper stories, and the inhabitants I was 

 informed had left. It lies about 1,000 feet above the big landslip which 

 formed the Barwar lake. Several other little hamlets on the way 

 were also almost ruined. Generally in this valley, not only as far as 

 Barwar but beyond to Plach, the extra damage to hill-sides and 

 house property may be attributed to the steep angle of slope and the 

 crumbled condition of the rock material. 



The Barwar lake on the Tirthan river, like the similar lake on the 

 Sainj, was formed by a dam of slipped rock tailing 

 athwart the stream. The lake lay in a deep gorge 

 roughly of a reversed S-shape, and it gradually lost itself to the S. E. 

 in the Tirthan river itself. It was from 100 to 200 yards across in its 

 widest part at the time of my examination of it, and about J mile 

 long. The dam was necessarily at the N. W. end, and the broken 



