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■\v;ive8 were «hurt and rapid, and o\ertlirew towns and villages, 

 iissLired the ground, and ruined the strongest engineering struet- 

 iires.* According to the official returns, ahout seven thousand 

 people lost their lives, seventeen thonsand were wounded, and two 

 hundred scAenty thousand buildings were levelled with the ])lain, 

 while six thousand houses, less shattered by the shocks, were burnt 

 down Ijy fire. 



4'he Ibllowiiiii' are the statistical accounts of daniau'c in the six 

 ])roYinces, C(jnnng under the five Prefectures of Gifu, Aichi, Fukui, 

 Mive, and Shiga : — 



The following three cases are selected as examples out of a long 

 table, t(j sIkjw to what degree some of the cities and towns suffered 

 in regard to both life and property : — 



* The account given in this paragraph is based upon that contained in Milne and Burton's 

 Great EurtJiquake in Japan, IS'JI, already referred to. 



