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take shelter in the grove, as the showers of sand penetrate the rancho 

 in every direction, and nearly suffocate us. I have tied the branches 

 of the quintral that hangs from the maytens to the shrubs below, and 

 so made our wall firmer, and our window more shapely, that we may 

 look out upon the sea and the hills ; and having stuck four posts into 

 the earth, and laid one of the fallen doors upon them, we are furnished 

 with an admirable dining-table. 



- December 1th. — A slight shock at six a. m., immediately followed 

 by a severe one : and another in the evening. 



Lord Cochrane arrived in the Montezuma with Captain Winter 

 and Messrs. Grenfell and Jackson. Glennie, who appeared to have 

 been gaining ground for a fortnight, had another attack to-day. 

 Sunday, 8th. — A very severe shock. 



Monday, 9th. — One very slight shock ; the day dull and cloudy ; 

 the thermometer at 65" Fahrenheit. In the evening I had a pleasant 

 walk to the beach with Lord Cochrane ; we went chiefly for the pur- 

 pose of tracing the effects of the earthquake along the rocks. At 

 Valparaiso, the beach is raised about three feet, and some rocks are 

 exposed, which allows the fishermen to collect the clam, or scollop 

 shell-fish, which were not supposed to exist there before. We traced 

 considerable cracks in the earth all the way between the house and 

 the beach, about a mile, and the rocks have many evidently recent 

 rents in the same direction : it seemed as if we were admitted to the 

 secrets of nature's laboratory. Across the natural beds of granite, 

 there are veins from an inch to a line in thickness. Most of these 

 are quite filled up with white shiny particles, I suppose quartz, 

 and in some places they even project a little from the face of the 

 rock ; others only begin to have their sides coated, and have their 

 edges rounded, but are not nearly filled. The cracks of this earth- 

 quake are sharp and new, and easily to be distinguished from older 

 ones : they run, besides, directly under the neighbouring hills, where 

 the correspondent openings are much wider ; and in some instances 

 the earth has actually parted and fallen, leaving the stony base of the 

 hills bare. On the beach, although it was high water, many rocks, 



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