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taluqs, in which I am now making circuit, nor have any reports of 

 such an occurrence reached me from other parts of the district. 



" Translation of a Telugu Arzi, from Sitaramaya, Police Amin of 

 Tripati ; to J. D. Robinson, Esq , Acting Collector of North 

 Arcot, dated 3rd February 1860, No. 3. 



" As I was holding my kach'hari yesterday evening at 5 o'clock 

 p. M., I felt the shock of an earthquake, which lasted for the space 

 of a minute, and taking its course from east to west. The con- 

 comitant rumbling noise resembled the noise occasioned by a rail- 

 way train going at full speed. 



" 2. It appears from enquiries that the shock was felt by the in- 

 habitants of the villages in the neighbourhood of Tripati, who give 

 the same account of it as above described. / 



(Signed) Sitaramaya, 



Police Amin." 



" Translation of Arzi, addressed to J. D. Robinson, Esq., Acting 

 Collector of North Arcot, by Syed Isak, Tahsildar of Chendragiri. 

 " I beg to report that on the evening of the 2nd instant, about 

 5 o'clock, while holding kach'hari at kasba Chendragiri, I was 

 startled by an extraordinary sound as of thunder travelling rapidly 

 underground from north to south. The sound was audible for the 

 space of one minute, and during that time the ground trembled and 

 the shock was distinctly felt. On making enquiries, I learned that 

 the shock took its course from the foot of the Tirumala konda, a 

 hill seven miles north of Chendragiri kasba, and travelling south- 

 ward terminated at Thorno Kumbala, a village seven miles south 

 of Chendi agiri. The shock was felt west as far as Pakala, some 

 16 miles off, and to the north-west as far as Bimavaram, 10 miles 

 distant. If I hear any thing further worth mentioning, I shall im- 

 mediately communicate the same to the Huzur. No damage was 

 done to person or property." 



Letters from R. Davidson, Esq., Officiating Collector of Ganjam, 

 dated Berhampore, 29th February 1860, No. 59, and Chitterpur, 

 29th March 1860, No. 79. 



" I have the honor to inform you, that between 11 and 12 o'clock 

 in the night of Saturday the 25th instant, the shock of an earth- 



