328 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



2. In Western Pennsylvania and New York. 



3. Great earthquake of Shiraz, Persia. 

 5. Western Pennsylvania. 



27, 28. At the Canary Islands. 



June 2. At Acapulco. 



17. Portland, Maine. 



20. do. do. 



Aug. During the month earthquakes were frequent in Guatemala. 



1 7. At New Bedford, Mass. 



18. Throughout Greece. 



23. At Athens and Thebes, Greece. 



Sept. 11. At Port au Prince ; at New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. 



30. Throughout Greece and European Turkey. 



Oct. 2. At Kingston, Jamaica. 



4. At sea 200 miles west of the island of Java. 

 7. At Athens, Greece. 



23. In Oregon and the Northwest Coast of America. 



Throughout the month of October, earthquakes were frequent in 

 the Crimea, accompanied with frequent volcanic eruptions. 



Nov. 8. At St. Jago de Cuba. 



18, 21. At San Francisco and San Jose. 



A terrible earthquake destroyed the city of Shiraz, Persia, on the 

 3d of May, 15,000 perishing in the ruins. This earthquake dried up 

 the river Zsianderood, upon which the town of Ispahan depended for 

 its supply of water. This calamity was followed by a flight of locusts, 

 which, in a few hours, destroyed vegetation ; and following these, was 

 an inundation which did great damage ; and with all this, the cholera 

 morbus set in at Teheran, carrying off 150 persons daily. On the 2d 

 of May, shocks of earthquake were felt at Washington City, on the 

 Potomac ; Lynchburg, Va., on the James River ; Wheeling, Va., on 

 the Ohio River, and at Zanesville, Ohio, on the banks of the Mus- 

 kinguin River. The difference in longitude is about equal to the dif- 

 ference in clock-time between Shiraz and Washington. The earth- 

 quake was, therefore, simultaneous in both hemispheres. On the 4th 

 of May, a severe earthquake was experienced in the island of Anti- 

 gua ; and on the 5th, a shock was felt at Newcastle, Pa. 



Since November 21st, 1852, up to August 1853, there were thirty- 

 two shocks of an earthquake within the limits of California. The 

 effects of these continued shocks have been confined principally to the 

 southern section of the State, and have, therefore, excited but little 

 attention, although entitled to much more than has been elicited. The 

 effects on the desert have been considerable ; so much so that the 

 waters of the New River, the Big Lagoon, and other waters, which 

 made their appearance on the surface in 1848 and!849, have now 

 disappeared, and in their places volumes of sulphurous and effervescent 

 sulphur have appeared. 



