EARTHQUAKES. 



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CHILE. 



Chiloe, about three hundred and forty miles southward of 

 Concepcion, appears to have been shaken more strongly than 



ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ (ROBINSON CRUSOE'S). 



the intermediate district of Valdivia, where the volcano of 

 Villarica was noway affected, while in the Cordillera in front 

 of Chiloe two of the volcanoes burst forth at the same in- 

 stant in violent action. These two volcanoes and some 

 neighboring ones continued for a long time in eruption, and 

 ten months afterward were again influenced by an earth- 

 quake at Concepcion. Some men, cutting wood near the 

 base of one of these volcanoes, did not perceive the shock of 

 the 20th, although the whole surrounding province was then 



MAP OF THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. 



