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mext shock would detach some ruins from them; had they fallen, we 
could not have escaped, as the fragments from the summit would have 
flown over our heads, and we should have beem buried by those from the 
middle. | 
PROVIDENTIALLY there were no more shocks that night, ‘This: eavthe 
quake was smartly felt.in all. parts of the mountains, as well as in the 
plains of the N, W, provinces of Hindustan. 
in the morning we rémoved to the left bank of the river, where there 
is a bed of sand of about .150 yards wide; then is a flat of soil with trees 
of about 20 yards wide, and immediately above it are precipices. with 
snow on thems here we were much more secure} in the afternoon, indeed, 
the effects of the snow melting, often caused pieces of reck to fall from 
above, to near our station, but we could avoid them by running over the 
sand to the river side, which could not be done on the. right banks; bee 
sides only comparatively small pieces fell here, and in day. light, so that | 
this is much the best side to encamp on.—We had: the curiosity to mea 
sure trigonometrically the height of the cliff, at the feot of which we were 
during the shock, and found it to be 2745 feet. 
Tunis day, the 27th, we had a slight shock of an earthquake, as well.as 
so on the 28th. 
Barometers. 
Filled a new and full length clean tube with pure mercury, immediately 
In. 
after filling (unboiled), it stood at 20. 890 
