18 liULLETlX OF 'I'll ]■: XATl'KAI, 1I1STOKY NOCIKTV. 



six minutes, felt another shock, but .so very slight as to tie just perceptible 

 and no more. Again a few seconds after this second shock I thought I felt 

 another, but I was not positive. The first shock lasted forty or fifty 

 seconds, the second about the same time. It has, I believe, been felt at 

 Chatham, Fredericton, Dorchester, and in the State of Maine. It appears 

 to have been felt at Dorchester more than anywhere else. Some windows 

 in the house of the Hon. E. B. Chandler of that place were broken." 



Speaking of this shock in Acadian Geology, pp. 39-40, Sir Wm. Dawson 

 says : "' Its point of greatest intensity appears to have been at the bend of 

 the Petitcodiac (Moncton). At this place there were several shocks, one 

 of them sufficiently severe to damage a brick building." 



In the Journal of Azor Hoyt, the following entry occurs : " February 8th, 

 (1855). Three shocks of an earthquake — felt all through the Province." 

 This is the last entry in the Journal. 



1800. October 17; 0.25 a. m. 



Felt over a large .area of Eastern Canada and the New England States. 

 Also felt in this Province. Moderate in New Brunswick, but severe in 

 Quebec and Ontario. 



The Morning News of October 19th, I860, says: " A vibration of the earth 

 from twenty to thirty seconds in duration occurred about twenty-five 

 minutes past six o'clock on Wednesday morning along the western side of 

 the harbour, causing the houses to shake quite perceptibly, and in several 

 cases awakening people from their slumbers. We do not know what 

 distance it extended or whether it was perceived in St. John or not ; but 

 parties residing in the vicinity of Negrotown Point felt it very distinctly, 

 as did persons living near the Asylum." 



1809. October 22; 5,48 a, m. 



This earthquake was of considerable violence, and was felt all through the 

 Maritime Provinces, St. Lawrence Valley and the New England States. 

 The reports published in our city papers describe it as the most violent 

 shock ever felt here. It was preceded by a rumbling rushing noise like 

 the noise of distant thunder, and then came the vibrations, or series of them, 

 which seemed to pass away in the distance as though a wave like motion 

 had been imparted to tin ■ crust of the earth. These vibrations appeared 

 to be travelling nearly east and west. Houses were shaken, dishes rattled, 

 and bells rang, and in some cases (lower puts, etc., where rolled over. 

 The shock lasted about fifteen seconds. The papers of that date (October 

 25th, 1809) state that- the waters of lakes and streams were discoloured b\ 

 the shock, and it is noticed in particular that the water of the stream at 

 Penobsquis, which supplied the paper mill at that place, turned chalky 

 and had not regained its clearness on the following day. It is worthy of 

 remark that at Fredericton, in Mr. Babbit's shop, the clocks facing north 

 west were stopped, while t hose at righl angles to thai direction were not 

 affected. 



\V. Watson Allen has given me the following liote about this shock: "At 



Derby (Miramichi), at the Mill I' I, known as Wilson's Mills, a spring on 





