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water: we cannot at prefent tell what misfortune has 
happened. However all the government’s fait was 
before this laid up in ftorehoufes. Moreover, a mud- 
building of your fervant’s (the writer of this account) 
was almoft deftroyed by the fhock, but it flill ftands 
upright. 
And at Haldah about 12 doan of land belonging 
to Sacheeram Cannoongoeij is entirely funk into the 
water. 
In like manner in Takaleeah, about 5 doan of 
ground, the property of Barjallaal Chowdhry has 
fallen fomething below its primitive level. 
And at Do Hazary, Harry Singh’s houfe, and a 
orick d building of Sheer Zaman CHan’s came down, 
and the CHan was hurt by the fall of his 5 and there 
opened a cavity like a ditch of 200 cubits in length, 
which filled with water. 
At Howla, the houfe of Shiam Ram taxgatherer, 
broke down, and his whole inclofure was torn up, 
and in mofl places his houfe and fifh-ponds were fill- 
ed with fand- banks: even now the whole fpot is two 
cubits under water. 
And, at Dahrampoor, the houfe of Santeeram, 
the Cannoon-Goeys writer, intirely fell down. 
The Kutwall, of Iflamabad, alfo informed us with 
his own mouth, that, in a place called Baramcharah, 
the water was up to a man’s waift, and the people 
there have betaken themfelves to flight, through fear 
of perifhing ; no living creature but the cattle now 
remaining. 
And in the houfe of Santeeram Cannoon-Goey of 
Iflamabad, a bricked room was ruined, and one of 
his 
