72 M1DDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



The Jibhi travellers' bungalow was built kat-ki-kuni as regards it 

 walls, and remained intact except that, the roof where 

 the chimney protruded had fallen (in part) and 

 the verandah supporting a roof of heavy thick schistose slate had been 

 thrust laterally out of the vertical. Many of the servants' quarters 

 were damaged and a village near was burnt down during the earth- 

 quake. This is the only instance I came across of fire playing a des- 

 tructive role. The tall fir trees surrounding the bungalow were said to 

 have swayed* so much as to threaten to fall, but they did not. 



Jibhi to Luri. 



The track up to the Jalori pass, 10,630 feet, takes one along the 

 .members of the same rock group of quartzites, 

 . a on pass. quartz-schists, limestones and slates — sometimes 

 carbonaceous — but no further rock falls were noticed, except quite 

 close to Jibhi itself. The strike curves round from N.W. — S.E. until 

 it becomes N. — S. at the pass. Near here a very prominent, detached 

 pinnacle of rock, with vertical sides still stood insecurely perched 

 on the slope of the ridge and supported a cluster of growing fir trees 

 at top. 



The village of Kot on the S. side of the pass, a picturesque group 

 of houses in the timber-and-stone style, straggling 

 down the crest of a little ridge, was almost the last 

 along this route to show any considerable damage, walls being bulged 

 and roofs partly destroyed; whilst the travellers' bungalow, still 

 further down the rugged and precipitous spur, had similarly bulged 

 as to its walls. The roof also had become insecure, and consequently 

 the heavy slates had been removed by hand prior to my arrival. 

 Like the Kot houses it also was timber-bonded, but not Jcat-ki-kmi. 

 The heavily canopied gateway of the enclosure of the hill temple, which 

 somewhat resembled the lich-gate of a country churchyard in England, 

 had likewise collapsed. The strike of the rocks had further changed 

 at the S. side of the pass, and now was N.E. — S.W., with the dip 

 to S.E. at moderate angles of 15° only, down the slope of the hill. 



