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a. KOTO : CAVSE OF THE QEEAT 



houses, and ;even mountains suffered, people and animals were 

 killed, rivers were stopped up, and floods were occasioned. J3ut in 

 spite of these subterranean convulsions, the temple in Xogô, erected 

 in 1673, had stood well-preserved down to the present generation. 



From the facts already given, it seems not improbable that the 

 centres of disturbance of former times have not been located in 

 the Xeo vallev. In pre-historic times, however, tliere must have 

 occurred several gretit earthquakes, as is evinced liy the geologi(.'jil 

 structure of its mountains. In the great earthquake of 1854. which is 

 still within rlic memory of many, the Xeo valley had been Ijut very 

 little disturbed, we were told liy old folks in Xagaminé. whose houses 

 had coll;ipse<l completely in the last catastrophe, and tliat many of them 

 built more than a r-entury ago. had remained till tluit event in tolerably 

 good. condition, and with(jut being impaired ly any former earthquake. 

 The rent appenrs again at the bottom of the Konokana-(]ani, 

 a side- val IcA' whidi we fallowed up from Xogö, here diverting the 



main course of the 

 Xeo-gawa. It might 

 lie traced with great 

 exactitude as far north 

 as the entrance of the 

 sunken gully of Fuji- 

 tani, wliere the line ol' 

 displacement of the 

 rocks appeared on the 

 surface like a rounded 

 ridge of soft earth 1 

 to 1-^ metres high, as 



seen in Plate XXXV. 

 The ii^round had been 



