366 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake-Shocks felt m Great Britain ^ 



gives the details of the preceding eruptions. On the 11th 

 he ascended to the top of Mount Gede, and stopped there to 

 pass the night. He was awakened, about four o'clock in the 

 morning, by an explosion of the crater ; the fire rose to the 

 height of one hundred and fifty feet. On the same morning 

 stones were cast up from one to four feet in diameter, and many 

 of smaller size ; the largest fell the distance of two pals from 

 the crater ; the smaller ones, with pieces of brimstone an 

 inch in diameter, four pals ; and ashes sixteen pals from the 

 crater. In the eruption of the 2d, the noise of which was 

 ^louder than the preceding, many stones, about five feet in 

 diameter, fell." 



February 26, 1841. — " At Zante, after three days and 

 nights of incessant rain, attended by a violent gale of wind, 

 a most alarming shock of earthquake was felt about seven in 

 the evening. It was not so disastrous as that of last October, 

 but the duration was much longer, the vibration being con- 

 tinued from thirty to thirty-five seconds, while the former 

 lasted only eight or nine. The streets were in an instant 

 filled with the terrified people, eager to fly, but not knowing 

 where to seek safety. In their houses they dreaded being 

 buried in ruins ; in the streets they were drenched with rain. 

 Only a few houses fell, either in the town or the surrounding 

 country ; others were more or less shaken ; and as the shocks 

 recur daily, we have every reason to fear that, in the end, the 

 town will become a heap of ruins. After the earthquake of 

 October, which destroyed nearly all the houses in the island, 

 Zante experienced successive shocks, more or less strong, dur- 

 ing forty days, making the number amount to no fewer than 

 259, and during the remainder of 1840, vibrations of the 

 earth, more or less perceptible, nearly every day. All the 

 violent shocks were attended with dull rumbling sounds and 

 subterranean explosions. Sometimes these noises were heard 

 without being succeededby any vibration, and sometimes the 

 shocks were silent. Since 1514, Zante has experienced 

 twenty-one earthquakes. That in 1514 divided the hill on 

 which the fortress stood, and buried part of the ancient town 

 in the ruins. In 1767, the shocks were repeated for three 



