LARGE CITIES OF THE PLAINS NEAR THE VIIth ISOSEIST. \Q\ 



No. 40 hard a thatched gable roof, inclined towards the E. and W., 

 on which were four rectangular biick chimneys. In all thatched roofs 

 observed it was noticeable that, owing partly to the insecure means of 

 attachment to the roof, and partly to the steepness of the slope of {he 

 latter, chimneys were very liable to fall bodily. One of the stacks of 

 this bungalow has all but fallen, and is now balanced on one of its 

 lower outer corners, leaning in the direction W. 30° S. A second has 

 been completely overthrown, and the remaining two have been badly 

 shaken. 



In No. 26, there is a large crack in the front verandah, and two 

 chimneys badly cracked at the base have been rebuilt. 



In No. 17, two chimneys on the thatched roof have fallen and in 

 No. 10, one chimney on the thatched roof has fallen. 



In the Chemist's bungalow, a small section of the roof -margin of 

 a. somewhat insecure-looking porch has fallen. 



In No. — , a wall on the W. side of the house has fallen upon the 

 verandah roof. 



Two of the barracks of the Royal Artillery Lines which consist of 

 Royal Artillery the usual long two-storied red brick structures, and 

 whose longer axes point N. E. to S. W., have been 

 affected in an exactly similar manner. On the upper floor, all arches 

 and doorways running transversely, i.e., N. W. to S. E., are cracked, in 

 a few cases seriously, especially those traversing the verandah. Some 

 longitudinal arches and doorways show cracks, but these are smaller and 

 less numerous ; many of th e longitudinal arches of the outer verandah 

 wall even have escaped, although these are generally points of weakness. 

 The condition of the ground floor is an exact repetition on a smaller scale 

 of that of the upper floor. 



In a third barrack whose bearings are the same as the first two, a 

 somewhat similar thing has happened, but the injury is greater. There 

 are wide cracks in transverse arches and doorways but the longitu- 

 dinal arches are much less gravely affected. The outside transverse 



