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being most severe at Fort Tejon, about half-way between 

 these two points. Loud noises, either rumbling or like explo- 

 sions, were heard to accompany the shock at Tejon, San Ber- 

 nardino, Visalia, and in the Mojave Valley. The waters of 

 the 3Iokelumne River were thrown upon the banks so as to 

 almost leave the bed bare in one place. ' The current of Kern 

 River was turned up-stream, and the water ran four feet deep 

 over the bank. The water of Tulare Lake was thrown upon its 

 shores ; and the Los Angeles River was flung out of its* bed. 

 In Santa Clara Valley the artesian wells were much affected. 

 Some ceased to run, and others had an increased supply of 

 water. Near San Fernando, a large stream of water was 

 found running from the mountains, where there was no water 

 before. In San Diego, and at San Fernando, several houses 

 were thrown down ; and at San Buenaventura the roof of the 

 Mission Church fell in. Several new springs were formed near 

 Santa Barbara by the shock. In the San Gabriel Valley, the 

 earth opened in a gap several miles long ; and in one place the 

 river deserted its ancient bed, and followed this new opening. 

 In the valley of the Santa Clara River there were large cracks 

 in the earth. A large fissure was made in the western part of 

 the town of San Bernardino. At Fort Tejon the shock threw 

 down nearly all the buildings, snapped off large trees close to 

 the ground, and overthrew others, tearing them up by the 

 roots, and tore the earth apart in a fissure twenty feet wide 

 and forty miles long, the sides of which rent then came to- 

 gether with so much violence that the earth was forced up in a 

 ridge ten feet wide and several feet high. At Reed's Ranch, 

 not far from Fort Tejon, a house was thrown down, and a wo- 

 man in it killed. 



On the 26th of November, 1858, nearly every brick build- 

 ing in San Jose was injured by an earthquake. 



On the 3d of July, 18G1, Amador Valley, in Alameda 

 County, was severely shaken. Adobe houses were seriously 

 injured, chimneys toppled down, furniture was flung from side 



