KANGRA-KULU EPICEOTRAL AREA. 71 



ously unstable condition ready to give much trouble during the rainy 

 months. 



At one point on the lake-side was a new or freshly reopened line 



of faulting with a steep hade to the S. W. 



8ure> cutting through limestone and slates — the only 



fissure I have so far seen that might possibly be 



connected with some deeper fracture, and not due to gravity, 



combined with the earthquake, for its causation. 



Between this place and Manglaur isoseist No. IX is estimated to lie. 



Barwar Lake to Jibhi. 

 The hamlets on the way to Manglaur, especially Ratwa, were 

 much damaged. All were built kat-k -kuni style, 



Damage between twQ Qr three stories h[ ^ and ia fco ated towec 

 Barwar and Mang- 



laur. fashion like Tipri (see pi. 14, fig. 1). A few of them 



(probably old bu ldings) had subsided whilst hers 

 were damaged as to rcofs, walls, etc. The travellers' bungalow at 

 Manglaur was not much damaged and some of the rooms were 

 habitable. 



In the long and steep gorge cut out of slates and schistose slates 

 between Manglaur and the bridge below Plach, I 

 found a diminishing amount of destruction. Here 

 and there the timber bonded houses and towers showed some damage, 

 frequently the result of old and decayed timber. Plach lies consider- 

 ably above the level of the river-bed above Srai and other hamlets, 

 and I could not see how it had suffered. The bridge , a rather lone 

 wooden cantilever, had suffered no ill effects ; and the road the whole 

 way was in good order. From the bridge to Ban jar everything was 

 much the same. Ban jar itself had been somewhat damaged as it was 

 built bazar fashion in a row of shops of different heights.. The tabsil 

 and hospital buildings had suffered slightly, as also had the distant 

 villages seen from Ban jar. On ascending the narrow side valleys to 

 Jibhi, house damage became less noticeable ; and the hill-sides were 

 intact until within 2 miles of Jibhi, where white, granulai quatrzite 

 associated with black slates had caused a few minor ro:k avalanches. 



