18th of September marks the anniversary of the Great Landslide of 1880, when the town of Nainital, then with a population of just 6000, lost 151 people in a landslide. 1 At http://mynainital.com/history.htm#Landslides you'll get the history of this tragedy, plus two old photographs from British Library, showing the town before and after the mishap. 2 And at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7lyrc10.txt you'll find the etext of an old book which contains a poem narrating this event. '' THE NAINI TAL CATASTROPHE OF THE 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1880'' by H. S. BATTERSBY. From his HOME LYRICS - A Book of Poems, VOL II. =============== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India