394 Earthquakes. 



S.E. or S.E. by S. direction, emitting a train of vivid sparks 

 which gradually became paler until it entirely disappeared. 

 Its duration, the writer of this, who witnessed the scene, thinks 

 might be about five seconds, during which period it passed 

 over about a third of the visible atmosphere. 



EARTHQUAKE FELT AT SEA. 



The following is from the log book of the ship Orpheus, 

 bound from England to Ceylon : 



Monday, 1 Oth February, 182:3. 



" At lh. 15m. p.m. steering N.N.W. at the rate of five miles 

 per hour, a little swell from the S.S.E., felt a motion as if the 

 ship was running over the ground, or some other solid sub- 

 stance; and at the same time for from 60 to 65 seconds heard 

 a confused grinding tremulous noise, affecting the ship in 

 every part ; we sounded with twenty fathoms of line up and 

 down, but no ground. The sea not the least confused, nor 

 could we perceive the smallest appearance of any thing which 

 could occasion this noise and motion. The ship was not felt 

 to strike once : sh< kept perfectly upright in her way through 

 the water, and answered the helm : nor did she make any wa- 

 ter in consequence of the shock received. At 2h. 5m. p.m. 

 another shock was experienced, but much lighter than the 

 first; and about three p.m. a third, which was only just per- 

 ceptible. The first was so violent as to unship one of the 

 compass cards from its point in the binnacle ; and a pair of 

 boots, which were Hanging on a nail driven into the mainmast 

 between decks, were shaken off. The ship's place at the first 

 shock was 1. 10. N.; 84. 6. E. :— at the second, 1. 15. N.; 

 84. 4. E." — Medical Repository. 



EARTHQUAKES. 



A pretty severe shock was felt in Trinidad on the morning 

 of the 5th of January between three and four o'clock ; but 

 happily it did no damage. 



At Bergen in Norway, on the 6th of January, about half 

 past five o'clock a.m., a smart shock of an earthquake was ex- 

 perienced, accompanied with a rumbling subterranean noise, 

 by which the houses were so much shaken that the furniture 

 was tumbled about. The direction was from S.W. to N.E. 

 The noise continued nearly a minute ; this shock was suc- 

 ceeded soon after by another in the same direction, but weaker 

 and of shorter du"ation. 



Letters from St. Petersburg of the 7th of April announce, 

 that in the night of the 1 1th of February a slight shock of an 

 earthquake was felt at Irkutak in Siberia. 



Letters 



