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heads and feet rise and fall with great rapidity. This last 

 shock had a noise like that of a heavily-laden carriage pass- 

 ing over a pavement at a distance. A short time afterwards 

 a violent wind rose, and was followed by torrents of rain. 

 At three in the morning the storm was over, but another 

 shock of earthquake was experienced. This was in the direc- 

 tion of north to south, but was less violent. The shocks were 

 felt in all the communes near Orleans, but, with the excep- 

 tion of the derangement of small articles of furniture, and 

 some slight cracking, no evidence remained of them. It is a 

 remarkable fact, that all the insane patients of the asylum at 

 Orleans passed the night in a state of extreme agitation and 

 irritation." 



14M July 1841 — " On this day a remarkable phenomenon 

 was witnessed at Marseilles, where, between eleven and one 

 in the day, a strong tide set in at the mouth of the harbour 

 and caused the level of the water to rise a foot and a half, 

 knocking several vessels against each other, and causing some 

 alarm. At this port no tides are ever felt, and the cause of 

 this sudden rise of the water is supposed to be connected with 

 a volcanic phenomenon on the other side of the Mediter- 

 ranean, accounts of which will probably be received at a fu- 

 ture period." 



l^th August 1841. — " At Antigua, in the morning of this day, 

 a shock was felt. It was a sudden and severe jerk, with a 

 short subsequent tremor." 



Vlth August 1841. — " At St Lucia, on the evening of this 

 day, a most appalling shock of an earthquake was experienced 

 here. Though it did not last for more than twelve seconds 

 of time, the agitation of the earth was of the most violent na- 

 ture, preceded by a hoarse rumbling sound. We are happy 

 to add, that the shock has not been attended with any deplor- 

 able effects here ; only some slight cracks have appeared on 

 a few stone buildings in town.**** 



Martinique. — Three shocks of an earthquake had likewise 

 been experienced in this island. 



Id September 1841. — At San Jose, Gosta Rica, on the 

 Isthmus of Darien, an earthquake occurred a little after 

 6 A.M. — " The houses, though much shaken, had not fallen, 



