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MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



The Central Mu 

 beam. 



la the post- master's private quarters on the first floor at the end 

 of the western arm, a considerable quantity of plaster fell from trans- 

 verse walls but none from longitudinal walls. A crack also ran down 

 from tower C, followed the direction of the longitudinal wall through 

 two rooms and then passed transversely across the building, making it 

 appear as if there had been a tendency to shake off the end portion of 

 the building. 



In the north-western arm, plaster fell from one wall only, a longi- 

 tudinal one, in a room near the tow T er A. 



On the ground floor there are a few slight vertical cracks, and the 

 ceilings appear to have been lifted up in a few cases. 



In Lahore Central Museum the roof of the long and lofty central 

 room contains twelve separate barrel-arched ceilings 

 of brick and plaster, each being perforated by a 

 circular aperture in the centre for lighting pur- 

 The 1st, 2nd, and 12th ceilings are cracked, the 1st and 2nd 



diagonally, and the 

 12th more irregu- 

 larly, but with a 

 diagonal tendency. 

 (See fig. 39.) This 

 room lies due N. 

 and S. In another 

 Fig. 39. room with the same 



bearings, one of a similar set of ceilings is cracked diagonally in the 

 same way. 



On the corners of the roof solid dome-like turrets of brickwork 

 pierced by small arched doorways on the four sides, were severely 

 shaken and cracked. 



The School of Art is a square building connected with the Museum, 



but built at a different time : the walls face N., 



School of Art and g E ftnd w Each comer bears a turret, and 



Public Library. 



although all these are exactly similar and pre- 

 sumably equally well built, the two on the N. are practically intact 



■^-N. 



