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the S. W. The brickwork immediately beneath and just above a blocked 



up arch is shattered and has sagged at the centre, as if some force had 



been pulling the arch apart. 



Over the entrance gateway of the serai near the railway station 



are two cupolas, each on four pillars, the wall which 



they overlook pointing roughly N. E. to S. W. An 



iron core passes up each pillar and is bound to an iron frame- work 



investing the cupola. One of these cupolas has been thrust, from 



6 inches to a foot, over the pillars, and is now leaning towards the S., 



but has been saved from falling by the grip of the iron bands. 



The old Amritsar Hotel is a somewhat extensive building whose 



longer axis lies W. 10° N. At its W. end is a semi- 

 Old Hotel. . . , _ . 



circular verandah from which projects a porch 

 consisting of 3 pillars connected with the verandah by 3 beams support- 

 ing the roof. The beams therefore run W. 10° N. and the southern- 

 most one has been jerked out of its socket in the verandah wall and 

 fallen, involving the S. half of the porch roof in its fall. The other 

 two beams with their joists remain, and the solidly constructed veran- 

 dah has escaped with a few insignificant cracks over the arches. The 

 rooms inside are not seriously injured, although many show small cracks. 

 A small brick pillar-head fell off the top of the southernmost porch 

 pillar in a direction S. 30° W. 



There are several long cracks in the new Amritsar Hotel especially 



in room corners, and the arches of the verandah on 



the W. are cracked in the usual way. The porch on 



the E. side of the house has separated by one or two inches from the 



wall, and is unsafe. 



The Divisional Court has received several cracks, but no serious 



Divisional Court, damage The porch, as usual, is the chief part affected. 



A wooden belfry on the W. end of the Mission Church has fallen 



towards the N. W. on to the W. half of a gabled - 



Mission Chuich. porchroof beneath, through which it broke. The 



S. half of this roof is unbroken, its tiles being intact. There is nothing 



in the plan or symmetry of the building, or of the belfry, to have 



