LARGE CITIES OP THE PLAINS NEAR THE VIIth ISOSEIST. I53 



The Post Office is a rectangular red -brick building with its longer 

 axis N. W. to S. E. Very slight cracks are distri- 



Post Office. ■ . ' • , 



buted fairly equally over all the walls, especially 

 over arches and in corners as usual. From the walls on the N. W. 

 and S. E. project two porches, each carrying two small brick balls on 

 the outer roof corners. In the case of the S. E. porch the two balls 

 have been projected towards the N. E. and S. W., and have fallen 

 one on each side of the porch ; while the pair on the N. W. porch have 

 not fallen but have been severely shaken and cracked. 



The Ram Bagh garden gateway is an old square building stand- 

 Ram Bagh gate- ing N. — S. and E. — W., pierced by a large arched 

 way * gateway entrance from the N. to the S. side. Each 



corner bears a large cupola supported by six slender pillars, each being 

 strengthened with an iron core. The pillars of the S. E. cupola have 

 been thrust over towards the S. W., the cupola and pillar-casing hav- 

 ing fallen in this direction, leaving the deformed iron frame-work consi- 

 derably bent towards the S. W. The S. W. cupola leans slightly 

 towards the S. W., the N. W. cupola towards the N., and the N. E. 

 cupola towards the E., but it is uncertain whether this has resulted 

 from the earthquake : the cupolas on the N. W and N. E. have four 

 pillars each only. (See pi. 25.) 



On the roof is a stone baradari which has been severely shaken and 

 cracked and is now in an unsafe condition. The gateway is badly 

 cracked all over. 



Clerk's Memorial is a small, red-brick house, in the shape of an 

 octagon, two opposite sides of which are longer 



Clerk'*s Memorial. ., . ,. ,, . . . . , T „ 



than the others: the longer axis points JN. E. to 

 S. W. A verandah extends for three-quarters of the distance round, 

 the other quarter being occupied by a low "wing." A cornice on 

 each of the two longer sides of the octagon has, in each case, fallen on 

 to the roof of the verandah beneath, and broken the roof beams. At 

 the S. W. end a similar cornice above the " wing' ' has fallen on to 

 the underlying roof, and the cornice on the margin of this roof, toge- 

 ther with a portion of the wall beneath, have fallen outwards towards 



