KANGRA-KULU EPICENTRAL AREA. 73 



At Chawai, the next stage, the bungalow was habitable, the 

 ch:'mneys only having fallen ; but on the way 

 there, in the steep-sided nullah into which the road 

 dips, there was still some notable damage to old buildings ; roofs and 

 a few walls having succumbed. Beyond that point all serious injury 

 to buildings ends, and consequently isoseist No. VIII has been drawn 

 between Kot and Chawai. 



The road to Dalash, like that from Jibhi, showed no destruction 

 to hill-sides, and, as for buildings, only a few tiles 

 Dalash. were <ji S p] acec l € The travellers ' bungalow was in- 



tact, even the chimneys remaining in position. A few roof tiles were 

 slightly displaced, and there were fine cracks in the plaster of the 

 walls. 



No damage was apparent on the way to Luri, and the bungalow 

 had not a single crack of any sort. The sus- 

 pension bridge over the Sutlej river exhibited one 

 or two insignificant cracks, but there was no real injury of any sort 

 beyond the wide and very open valley of the Sutlej,. which with its 

 sub-recent gravel terraces, 500 to 600 feet above the water level, forms 

 a striking contrast to the contracted river-gorges of Kulu between 

 Bajaura and the Jalori pass. 



Luri to Simla. 



The long steady ascent to Narkanda showed no visible effects of 

 the earthquake., but I was informed that here and there house walls 

 showed tiny cracks. The rest of the way to Simla was similarly bar- 

 ren of any visible result, hill -sides and villages with their staging bun* 

 galows appearing quite normal. 



At Simla my tour came to an end. In a large hill -station such 



as this, dotted over a big area of steep slopes, there 



were, of course, many accounts of chimneys and 



other minor falls having taken place ; but all such had long since been 



repaired, and the effects of the shock only remained as an unpleasant 



memory. 



