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shock was felt which l.iste I half a minute. It com- 

 menced by a tiembling of the earth, tleii a violent 

 shock succeeded, wliich was followed by a trembling 

 similar to that with which the earthquake commenced, 

 and which gradually diminished. The sea rose more 

 than three yards above its ordinary level, and then 

 sank, leaving dry upon the shore many fish, and all 

 that it had at first engulfed. 



We may adl to the list of cities that have been 

 lost those of Helice and Bura, in Achaia, which were 

 submerged in the year 3(58 B.C. The greater part of 

 Lycadia was also covered by the waters. 



Strabo, in his Egyptian voyage, relates that he 

 saw Mount Casius, which had been suddenly sepa- 

 rated from the continent and become an island, which 

 it was necessary to sail round to reach Phoenicia. 



Sorca, one of the Moluccas, was swallowed up by the 

 sea during an earthquake in 1693. 



At Java a mountain, three leagues in circum- 

 ference, disappeared suddenly in 1772. 



It is on record that a space of about sixty leagues, 

 in the province of Chan-tsy, in China, was completely 

 ( overed with water in a few days, in 1566. 



St. Lawrence once joined the American continent, 

 t ut is now separated from it by an arm of the sea, 

 some hundreds of yards broad. 



One of the most disastrous eruptions ^A' tlie sea on 



