50 PROBABLE EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES ON 
posite range dip very considerably to the westward, — antl 
this inclination is more conspicuous the farther we proceed 
in that direction, till we reach Hussingabad, when the angle 
with the horizon, in some instances, exceed 45°. Opposite 
to the Company's military cantonments at this place, the 
appearance of the sandstone strata cannot fail to strike the 
most indifferent observer. The hills rise from the west, 
like the waves of the ocean, gradually swelling, till they 
terminate abruptly to the east, with a perpendicular face, 
many hundred feet high. There is a small elevation to the 
south of the Nerbuddah, and in front of the Hussingabad 
cantonment, which displays the same arrangement, and has 
evidently been of cotemporaneous formation, though distant 
about five or six miles from the principal range. The rock 
is primitive sandstone, similar to that of the Bundlecund 
hills, and is in common use for building, for which it seems 
well calculated. Looking at those ridg-es of hills on the 
north of the Nerbuddah, and comparing their singular ap- 
pearance with others of the same general structure, parallel 
to them, or even composing part of the same line, we can- 
not hesitate in pronouncing that they must have been ele- 
vated, or heaved up, from the horizontal position, by a 
subterranean force acting with successive impulses, and in 
all probability have owed their origin to a violent earth- 
quake, which has happened at a period far beyond record 
or tradition, or perhaps even the existence of the human 
species. The earthquake which occurred on the 17th June 
last year, only wanted force to have raised a chain of hills 
of the same character, from one side of the base of the 
Indian Peninsula to the other, from the Gulf of Cumbay 
to the bottom of the Bay of Bengal. It was a succession 
of long heaves, very different from what are usually expe- 
rienced and denominated the shocks of an earthquake ; the 
undulatory m.otion being prolonged and repeated over the 
