288 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



If we consider as in the preceding case the extreme time differences 

 for all individual towns where more than one observation is recorded, 

 we have as follows J, 5, 3, 2, 4 minutes respectively, which give an 

 average of 3 as against 9 in the preceding cases. And this method of 

 comparison neglects the fact that very many recorded times are in 

 absolute agreement. 



Summing up the evidence for the time as given in the earthquake 

 forms by observations said to be substantiated by 

 nof^onfir'med^ 6017 refe *ence to the standard then in vogue, we find that 

 it in no way confirms Harboe's theory of a complex 

 ramifying "spider's web " centrum, from which the felt waves spread 

 slowly into the intervening areas. It certainly gives evidence for a 

 condition of a somewhat similar nature as regards the times, but one 

 whose complex ramifying lines are in reality those coinciding with im- 

 portant towns or railway communication, along which more' accurate 

 time-keeping has become customary ; whilst the intervening areas, instead 

 of being those where the felt waves spread slowly, become merely those 

 where irregularity of quite another sort occurred, namely, in that of the 

 sending, registering or correct referring of the daily time signal. The 

 unequal transmitting power that operated was not inherent in the rocKS 

 but rather in the machinery of time registration. 



From information kindly supplied me by Mr. G. T. W. Olver, 

 Superintendent, Indian Telegraphs, I am able to give the following 

 details of the stations where the daily time signal is repeated on its way 

 to the towns mentioned in the preceding lists. It will be seen that a 

 loss of 4 or 5 seconds is the utmost that should occur in transmitting the 

 signal if ordinary attention is observed. The following abbreviations 

 are used: Ms.=Madras, By.=Bombay, Lh.=Lahore, Sk.=Srinagar, 

 Ag.=Agra, Rp =Rawal Pindi, Dhi.= Delhi, Lkw.=Lucknow. 



Locality. 



Repeating stations. 



Dras .... 

 Srinagar .... 



Ms., By., Lh., Sk. 

 Ms., By., Lh. 



