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WAS SUCH A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE?
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| fort of sindree, on the eastern branch of the indus, before it was submerged by the earthquake of 1819. |
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| view of the fort of sindree from the west in march, 1838. |
permanently eighteen feet deep in places where there was land before. The area covered by the convulsion was 1000 English miles in circumference. "In the island of Amboyna, in the same month and year, the ground opened, threw out water,
