On the Reality of the Rise of the Coast of Chile. 289 
but running in the same direction. Many of the larger of these clefts 
might be traced from the beach to the distance of a mile and a half 
across the neighboring promontory, where, in some instances, the 
earth parted, and left the stony base of the hill exposed. 
It appeared on the morning of the 20th, that the whole line of 
coast, from north to south, to the distance of one hundred miles, had 
been raised above its former level. I perceived, from a small hill 
near Quintero, that an old wreck of a ship, which before could not 
be approached, was now accessible from the land, although its place 
on the shore had not been shifted. The alteration of the level at 
Valparaiso was about three feet, and some rocks were thus newly 
exposed, on which the fishermen collected the scollop-shell fish, 
which was not known to exist before the Earthquake. At Quintero, 
the elevation was about four feet. When I went to examine the 
Coast, accompanied by Lord Cochrane, although it was high water, 
I found the ancient bed of the sea laid bare, and dry, with beds of 
oysters, muscles, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which 
they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive eflu- 
via. I found good reason to believe that the coast had been raised 
by Earthquakes, at former periods, in a similar manner, several an- 
cient lines of beach, consisting of shingle, mixed with shells, exten- 
ding in a parallel direction to the shore, to the height of fifty feet 
above the sea. ‘The country has, in former years, been visited by 
Earthquakes, the last of any consequence having been ninety-three 
years ago. 
The shock of the 19th was felt as far as Lima to the north, by 
the ships there riding in the bay of Calao. To the south, it was ex- 
perienced at least as far as Conception, and to the east, beyond the 
Andes, at Mendoza, and at St. Juan. The distance from Concep- 
tion to Lima is about twenty degrees of latitude, or 1400 miles. 
I am, dear Sir, your’s, &c. Maria Granam. 
2. Extract from Mr. President Greznnoven’s Address to the 
Geological Society, delivered on the 4th of June, 1834. 
Tux Earthquake in Chile in 1822 has been so much* insisted on, 
that it requires detailed consideration. Of this event, an account by 
* Baxewewu’s Geology, 4th Lond. edit., pp. 98, 504. and 2nd Amer. edit., pp. 67, 
344, Lye, Vol. 1. pp. 401,455. De La Becur’s Manual, 2nd edit. Scrore om 
Volcanoes, p. 209. 
