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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12512902953).jpg 258 PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETX April 10 <br> have really made any thing out of these It is a first attempt you <br> know on my part and has necessarily heen a hurried one ; but <br> whether successful or not you will I know appreciate the attempt <br> What accounts you may have had of the late earthquake I do not <br> know ; most of the telegraphic accounts we had here were greatly <br> exaggerated especially in regard to the Assuring and opening of the <br> earth in many places and the outburst of what they were pleased to <br> call volcanic mud-craters c <br> It would be difficult to exaggerate the facts as to the fissTiring of <br> the ground in places ; hiit all this is only a secondary result The <br> facts are these The whole country is a great and widely extended <br> alluvial flat through which the rivers have cut deep channels the <br> banks being often 50 feet high and commonly 30 As is usual in <br> such cases they wind about very much and have filled and re-filled <br> in the portions within these curvings Cachar itself is just at the <br> base of a long peninsula of this kind just in the eye of this prominent <br> bend of the river while the flat peninsula is all of more recent for- <br> mation fig 1 The distinction is perfectly known to the natives who <br> Pig 1 ” Diagram of changed River-course at Cachar <br> a The town of Cachar or Silchar <br> call the permanent portion Kandy lands and the other more recently <br> filled in of the old river-channels Bhurti lands ; hhurti is HteraUy <br> ' filled in ' Now for scores of miles together the whole of this hhurti <br> land is composed of successive layers of stiff clay and mere sandy <br> deposits some 25 to 30 feet thick which throughout rest upon a <br> bed some 3 5 or 6 feet thick of bluish silt or sandy ooze ; this <br> is very porous and becomes highly charged with water assuming <br> when thus charged a dark bluish or nearly blackish colour This <br> bed is throughout at or close to the present level of the water in the <br> dry season which is some 30 feet below its level in the rains and <br> freshes ; and in this way this porous bed has remained charged with 34985267 108770 51125 Page 258 Text v 28 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34985267 1872 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 28 1872 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34985267 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34985267 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-14 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12512902953 2015-08-27 10 00 27 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1872 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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