42 Proceedings of (he Asiatic Society. [Feb. 



Memorandum from W. Gordon Young, Esq., Commissioner of the 

 Chittagong Division, — (No. 517, dated the 6th January, 1866.) 



Submitted to the Government of Bengal in continuation of this office 

 No. 501, dated 3rd instant. 



Extract paragraphs 1 to 9, from a letter from the Executive Engineer, 

 to the Superintending Engineer, South- Eastern Circle, No. 1538, 

 without date. 



Para. 1. — In continuation of the telegram which I sent you late in 

 the evening of the 16th instant, informing yon of five shocks of earth- 

 quake having been felt at this station on the night of the 15th between 

 half-past 7 and half-past 10 o'clock p. m., I have now the honor to 

 furnish the following details respecting it for your information. 



2. There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to whether the 

 shocks came from the west or the east, and as to the kind of noise which 

 accompanied them ; some state one thing and some another, differing 

 as to many particulars, and which, no doubt, arises from the nervous- 

 ness of the parties narrating ; but all agree that they were severe, and 

 that the first shock was the severest of the five. 



3. I can only state what I felt and heard myself. The first shock 

 was very severe, and lasted for about two minutes and a half ; it came 

 from the north-west, and was preceded by a noise, like to that which a 

 great wind would make at a distance. 



4. It made a similar noise to that which one sometimes hears 

 from a coming nor'westcr, and this continued throughout the time of 

 the first shock. There was, however, no wind blowing at the time, 

 nor anything to speak of during the night. 



5. The last four shocks were comparatively slight, and lasted not 

 more than five seconds each, and they were accompanied by no noises 

 of any kind. 



6. Several slight shocks of earthquake have been felt every night of 

 [since?] the 15th instant, and some during each day, but they are 

 nothing worth mentioning, and cannot do any harm. 



7. All the pucca buildings in the station have been more or less 

 shaken and cracked and injured : more especially so, those buildings 

 which Lie cast and west. 



8. The following are the public buildings which have been injured 



