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Riviere Quelle, C^ 15' A.M. Very violent, damaging walls and throwing down chimneys, especially in low 

 grounds. An account appeared anonymously in a Quebec paper, as follows: — 



Miviere Quelle, 17 Octobre, 1860. 



" Ce m ^tin tnjis fortes secousses de tremblement de terre sont venues jeter la frayeur au milieu de nos pop- 

 ulations. 



"Les batisses situees de chaque cote de notre riviere ont souffert genei'ulement. [Dix-huit chemlnees ont 

 6te renver.sees.] La croix de notre eglise et le coq sur qui la montait sont a terre ; les ninrs de notre belle 

 ^glise sont lezardes. Les secousses etaient effrayantes ; la premiere, la plus violente, a commence a six 

 heures et quart, et a dure quatre minutes et quarante secondes, tres violentes durant dix secondes et s'affaib- 

 lissant grM<luellenient ; la sceousse la plus faible si six heures et vingt minutes, a dure trois a qu.atre secondes, 

 et la troisieme a commence a six heures et deniie, et n'a dure que deux a trois secondes; mais, comme la pre- 

 miere, c'etait un choc saccade faisant danser les meubles, decrochant les cadres, les horloges, etc. 



" Les secousses ont etc plus faibles sur les hauteurs, que dans les plaines, de sorte que mes batisses se sont 

 trouvees a I'abri dos accidents. 



" Jamais de memoire de nos habitants, nous n'avons eu des coups aussi forts. Je suis demeure devant moa 

 horloge tout le temps pour m'assurer de sa duree. * * * Un bruit sourd et fort nous a d'ahord averti et ensuite 

 Bont venus les secousses et les craquements." 



Eboulement.s, near Murray B.iy, S"" 36' A.M. Violent. Five other feeble shocks in rapid succession, 

 another at noon, and another iit 5'' P.M. This is the only place where these latter shocks are mentioned, 

 but the hour of the first is probably an error. 



Bay St. Paul, b^ 50' A.5I. Violent shock ; chimneys fell. 



St. Thomas (JMontmagny), B"" A.M. Two shocks. 



St. Jcseph de la Beauce ; &" 10' A.M. 



Quebec, b^ 50' A.M. Several shocks, not so severe as at Riviere Quelle, but especially marked in the low 

 grounds. 



Leeds, Megantic, 6" 10' to 6'^ 15' A.M. 



Richmond, 5" 45' A.M. 



Three Rivers, about &" A.M. Shocks felt for two minutes. 



Granby, about C A.M. 



St. Hyacinthe, S*" 45' A.M. Three shocks continuing more than a minute ; buildings reported damaged. 



Maskinonge, 6'' A.JI. Shocks felt for more than a minute. Supposed to be from north to south. 



Montreal, 5'' 50' A.M. Two or three ]>erceptible shocks, felt less on the mountain than on lower ground. 



St. Martin, Isle Jesus, 5"" 55'. At Dr. Smallwood's observatory, two distinct and smart shocks. The wave 

 passed from east to west. Barometer 29.9C4 inches, temperature 40..3, wind N. E., cloudy. 



Cornwall, 6'> A.M. 



Prescott, 5'' 30'. 



Belleville, 5'' 30'. One shock. This place is about 9° of longitude west of Bic. 



Hamilton, 4" 45' A.M. 



In all, or nearly all, of these places the usual rumbling noise preceded the shock, and 

 gradually decreased as it passed. The shock was felt on the Atlantic coast. At Saco, 

 Maine, there was a strong shock. This earthquake was felt as far west as Auburn, in New 

 York, and south to Newark, New Jersey.^ In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and 

 Massachusetts, four light shocks were felt from east to west, with a feeble, subterranean 

 noise. 



In March, there were two sliocks in Massachusetts, according to some reports.^ 

 July 12, about 9 P.M., a shock was felt at Montreal, Ottawa, Prescott, Ogdensburg, 

 Brockville, Saint Andrews and St. Johns, but it was most violent at Ottawa, where it over- 



' Silliman's Jouru.il (2), vol. xxx, p. 150. ^ New York Weeklv Iluralil. Marcli i». Bunker Hill Au- 



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