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those of the athletse, he measured and weighed celebrated ''o^'ers, cricketers, wrestlers 

 rowerl pedestrians 'and others. Thesehe coniparedw|th the heights .mdwe,ght^of 

 soldiers and policemen, and thence with certam celebrated Gieek statues. J rom 

 such a comparison it appears that the wrestlers of Cornwall. Devon and the north 

 of England are not inferior to those statues. 



Communication relative to the Great Earthquahe experienced inCMle^ April 

 2, 1 851 . By H. Budge, F.R. G.S. : in a Letter to Mr. W. Bollaert, dated 

 Apr. 17, ivith Observations by the latter. 



Mr Bud-e states the motion to have been westward ; water in basins watei-jugs, 

 &c having been spilt over the east side; clocks whose pendulums vibrated eas and 

 we;t having stopped, while those beating north and south ^-^-^^^r^^^^^^l^^ 

 east and west being cracked every vvay, parUcularly lengthway and vesse s at sea 

 forty to sixtv miles ofl' the land, having felt it at an hour coiTesponding to tbe mitei 

 ince o? longitude. The author supposes the ph^non.enon to have been sub ec to 

 inst-^ntaneots cessations; and states that it turned round things on then base 

 n ead of t ovvhi- them down, at an angle of 20°. showing a circular motion for at 

 Srl nstant*^«I had a bust of plaster of Paris and a family medic.ne-chest 

 standing on a chest of drawers moved round in this way, while nothing occurred to 

 5 bourse (but however, purposely on my own plan for --^^-S^f ;^K?ed 

 except the removal out of place of a few tiles. A large brick chimney, ^ell-stayed 

 abovVwith i. o^ stays, was divided at a certain height from the ground in a horizon al 

 line ai^d the upper part was twisted round over the lower to about the same angle 



„ some hou"!,l wh'ich stood firm from being [-'--b-It, thoiigh ci^^^^^^^ 

 directions the furniture in the rooms, particularly up stairs, appealed as it some 

 Shad bpn among them, making them his playthings, some upset, some turned 



"'"rhetuior proposed an explanation of these and other pbf""™^"^^^ 7,;";^: 

 fluakes bvelecU-icity:-«Ihave experienced in this place, as I have ^tat^d tlnee 

 Sous eLthquakes -that of 1822,'which I passed i„ the house -til th^ bac^^d ; 

 that of 1829 and the present. On the last occasion the barometer and theimometei 

 !nd ca ed r.otS"nt, noV was there the least warning of any description; but as in- 

 ^^rlabl; oc'cuit aft'er a heavy shock, we had on the third day ^^-^;^Z:^£^ 

 hours' rain, for which 1 had already prepared, aware f,^ %^^'"S 'f^^,7;3;'S3 

 hannen at whatever season it may. I conceive also, that I have elt less reiaxea 

 Sn before it I cannot understand all these things unless electricity be the agent ; 

 wh"e the atmosphere must be affected in some vvay to ^^pwer down ram at s 3 



when under ordinary circumstances it does not fall. Santiago (the capital ot Ch, e) 

 CasaBranca?andQuillota seem to have suffered equally with Valparaiso; and the 

 two laUer places worse, while some of the public buildings of the capital are ordered 

 to be pulled down. My wife, who is at that place, mentions every subsequent shock 

 tallvln^e exactly with those here. The shock of 1822 was, however, about double 

 n ford and t LI; and I recollect well it was with difficulty I could stand whereas 

 on'h'presen; occasion I had no trouble. On that occasion, the sea - the B^y f 

 Valoaraiso retired considerably, and was several days m reaching its tcimer level, 

 wh Lon ?hiJ no such thing was observed. It is an awful fact to contemplate, that 

 The most massive buildings^f the country are the first to yield to the phaenomena 



referred to." 



Mr! Bollaert observed:-" Sometimes the violent eruptions of volcanoe are 

 accompanied by severe earthquakes ; and in regard to those of Peru I wiU -stance 

 one of this species, in which volcanic action was accompanied by a ternfic earth- 

 nuake viz the eruption in February 1(100, in the mountain range of On ate, 

 trenS-tw" leagues from Arequipa. On the 15th of that month the volcano broke 

 out with great fury and the ground was in continual motion. On the IHtli, in tne 

 evening, the movements were more rapid, and at 10 p.m. ^Jere was such a shock 

 that it awoke the soundest sleepers, and every five minutes during the night shocks 



* Mr. Mallet has explained this torsion of objects, ' Report on Earthquakes,' Brit, Assoc. 

 Reports, 1850.— Edit. 



