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296 notes on the earthquake v
the town the motion was sufficient to detach a small portion of the
masonry, which fell on the road close to some passers by. 1 he people
were much alarmed, and ran out ot their houses, carrying their children
with them, and crying out. Ihe wind at the time the shock occurred
was SSW., and the thermometer at 92°. I am unable to give the
state of the barometer, not having had one at hand. This, I under
stand, is the second shock that has been felt in Kaira during the last
four years ; the one .four years ago having been more severe and of
longer duration. No damage to life or property has occurred. The
weather has been very hot for the last month, the maximum heat in
the shade being 103° Fahrenheit. We are all looking forward anxi
ously for the signs of the approaching rains, which the natives predict
will be early this year. There is a great dearth of forage for cattle,
and consequently a good deal of mortality among them, resulting from
want of proper food more than anything else. In many parts of the
country they have sown jowaree, which they are growing by irrigation
to supply the want.
Earthquake.—We learn by private advices from Bhollera that the
shock of an earthquake was experienced there at about 10-45 a.m,
on the 29th ultimo. The shock appeared to travel from the North
west and lasted for about half a minute in the form of a regular
tremble, and was accompanied by a noise as of distant thunder. For
tunately no mischief was done, but at Limree, some 36 miles distant
from Dhollera, about 20 lives were lost by the falling in of dilapidated
buildings. The wave appears to have overspread the whole of Jahala-
v.ar and a portion of the Guzerat districts, as accounts have been
subsequently received of the shock having been felt at Wadhwan,
Dhandooka, Dhollera, Ahmedahad, and as far down as Beeleemora/*
Surat Mi tv a-
Kattiawar, 0th May 1864.
One of those generally calamitous visitations upon which the human
family has been taught to look with fear and trembling, an earthquake,
occurred in many parts of this province a little after 11 a. m. on the
29th ultimo. Ihe shock was preceded by a low rumbling noise, as of
distant thunder, and followed by a vibration of six seconds' duration,
that caused all the inanimate household gods to quake, and the
animate inmates in terror to seek refuge under the canopy of heaven.