1896 - 97 .] Mr J. W. Inglis on some Earthquakes in India. 509 
disturbances. I am told by a friend who lias just arrived from 
India that the heat this season has been exceptionally high, 97° 
being an average in most stations ; but at Bangalore, just before 
the earthquake was experienced, the thermometer recorded 100°. 
The highest I have heard of was 127° at Jacobabad. 
7. We have heard of the terrible destruction to railway com- 
munication in Assam. As one of the engineers in the construction 
of the first railway in Bengal, many years afterwards I was invited 
by a brother officer to visit the site of a bridge under construction 
on the Port Canning Railway, of which the ironwork and masonry 
had entirely collapsed from the effects of recent earthquakes. 
Looking at the nature of the soil in this locality of the Gangetic 
delta, and the rapid current in the tidal creek, it was impossible to 
resist a horrible shudder ! 
