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hundreds of big trees. Captain Banon further says the very hot 

 spring of Basisht was turned quite cold, whilst the 

 lukewarm water of Kelat, 4 miles further down the 

 valley, was rendered hot. After a week or 10 days they reverted to 

 their former state. He also mentions the great prevalence of thunder- 

 storms in Kulu during the year of the earthquake, many of them being 

 very destructive to cattle and human beings. 



(b) Suket to Simla. 



The following notes were kindly made for me by Mr. Burkill, Re- 

 Mr. Burkill's ac- porter on Economic Products to the Government of 

 count uear Suket. India, who had occasion to take the above route in 

 May 1906. Although this was nearly a year after the earthquake, there 

 was no difficulty in obtaining trustworthy information in such out-of- 

 the-way places where life moves slowly and there is no news to distract. 

 The damage reported agrees with what was to be expected, and 

 usefully fills a gap left blank by my own traverses of the region :— 



Fig. 23. 



