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KOTO: CAUSK OF THÉ GllEAT 



showed 110 wiiins whute^■e^ of the cominjx disaster and there the 

 ground remained quiet up to the very moment when the sudden 

 catastrophe o\"ertook Mino and Owari. 



Tlie Ibllowin^u' table shows the liuuerinu' of the after- shocks 

 of tlic great earthquake throughout the succeeding inontli. and for 

 several months after, minor shakes, which in Tokyo would he 

 considered stroni:*. continued to be ielt. 



It should l)e remai'ked that the ditference in number between 

 tlie earthquakes which occuiTcd in Xagoya Jind (nfu is \evy great 

 indeed, those in the latter amounting to nearly double those in the 

 former, and that from this it fallows that (xifu lay nearer to the 

 orio-in of the convulsion than X:io'oya. In the record of the i8th 

 of October, the day of the great event, an anomaly is apparent as 



