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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Fig. 13. Looking towards Kingston, across Harbor from Base of Pai.isadoes, show- 

 ing width of sunken belt. Soundings of four fathoms were taken where the tree-tips emerge 

 from the water, formerly near the old shore-line. 



St. Anne's Bay, on the north shore, also had its harbor emptied for 

 about seventy-five yards, after which a small incoming wave was fol- 

 lowed by gradually lessening oscillations. A careful search ten days 

 later along the other places of the harbor and coast line, however, 

 revealed no trace of any sea wave, even of slight degree. 



Thanks to the energy of the department in charge of the water- 

 works and to the good fortune that caused no important breaks in the 

 system, Kingston was shut off from its water supply for only two hours. 

 Some of its cement reservoirs situated near a large wrecked school 

 building showed no damage. The pipe that carries the city's sewage 

 eastward to the sea at the base of the Palisadoes, however, was broken 

 at several places along the zone of Assuring, and its linear extent, like 

 that of the water pipe along the Palisadoes, was marked by rifting in 



