LIST OF RECORDED EARTHQUAKES IN NEW BRUNSWICK. i9 



the west bank of the pond, before the earthquake, boiled out of the ground, 

 rising to a height of about a foot. After the earthquake, the fountain 

 part of the spring disappeared., although the spring itself is still there, but 

 diminished. Mr. William Wilson, who had lived there many years, always 

 claimed that the pond had increased in volume of water to a large extent. 

 " At the forks (the confluence of Cain's River and S. W. Miramichi), Mr. 

 Jacob Layton, who had resided there continuously for a number of years, 

 states that in the bed of the main Miramichi River, near the shore where 

 the water was quite shallow, and on a spot of ground that he knew very 

 well, after the earthquake there appeared a spring of boiling water, 

 sufficient to make a commotion upon the surface. There never had been 

 any indications of it before the earthquake." 



1870. March 17 ; 6 to 8 a. in. 



Felt at St. John and Fredericton. Light. It was at this time that a land- 

 slide occurred at Sand Point, carrying the end of the Point out into the 

 deeper water of the harbour. Sand Point is a gravel deposit formed by 

 the meeting of the harbour tides and the river, and is underlaid by clay. 

 This clay had probably been eroded by the action of water, and a heavy 

 storm the day before had hastened a condition of instability which, even 

 without a slight earth movement, would soon have caused the landslide. 



1870. October 20; 11.40 a. m. 



Felt all over the Province. In the lower part of the St. Lawrence Valley it 

 was much more violent than in New Brunswick. 



Dr. Jack, of the Provincial University, at Fredericton, in a despatch to the 

 St. John Dally Telegraph (October 21st, 1870), thus describes it: " It was 

 at seventeen minutes before noon that the first shock was felt here. This 

 lasted perhaps two seconds, and was shortly followed by another of abou^ 

 the same severity, which may have been the return stroke, as the interval 

 between was not over half a minute. The motion was vibratory, and 

 seemed to be from south to north. It was not as strong as the earthquake 

 of last year. There was violent wind all of Tuesday afternoon and night, 

 and this afternoon we have a heavy rain and lowering darkness." The 

 time at St. John was accurately noted to be 11.40: at Fredericton it was 

 11.43. 



1882. December 31; 9.56 p. m. 



St. John, Rothesay, Sussex and Fredericton. Light. Two shocks felt. 

 The following is from the St. John Daily Sun (January 2nd, 1883): "At 

 four minutes to 10 on Sunday night a slight shock of earthquake was felt. 

 In one residence on Charlotte street a vase was thrown from its stand to 

 the floor and broken ; in another house, in an opposite part of the city, all 

 the ornaments on a Christmas tree were set swinging vigorously. The 

 shock was also distinctly felt in Indiantown and on the other side of the 

 harbour. It was also felt at Sussex, Fredericton, and very markedly at 

 Rothesay." 



