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with beds of muscles, remain dry, and the fish are dead ; which proves 

 that the beach is raised about four feet at the Herradura. Above 

 these recent shells, beds of older ones may be traced at various 

 heights along the shore ; and such are found near the summits of 

 some of the loftiest hills in Chile, nay, I have heard, among the 

 Andes themselves. Were these also forced upwards from the sea, 

 and by the same causes ? On our return, I picked up on the beach, 

 in a little cove where there is a colony of fishermen, a quantity of 

 sand, or rather of iron dust, which is very sensible to the magnet. 

 It exactly resembles some that was brought me from the Pearl 

 Islands lately. Here the rocks are of grey granite, and the soil is 

 sand mixed with vegetable mould, and layers of pebbles and sea- 

 shells ; some of these upwards of 50 feet above the present beach. 

 Nothing can be more lovely than the evening and morning scenery 

 here. This evening, as we returned to the house, the snowy Andes 

 were decked in hues of rose and vermilion ; and the nearer hills in 

 dazzling purple, streaming to the ocean, where the sun was setting 

 in unclouded radiance. 



Tuesday, 10th, — While sitting at dinner with Lord Cochrane, 

 Messrs. Jackson, Bennet, and Orelle, we were startled by the longest 

 and severest shock since the first great earthquake of the 19th No- 

 vember. Some ran out of the house * (for we now inhabit a part of 

 it), and I flew to poor Glennie's bed-side : it had brought on severe 

 hemorrhage, which I stopped with laudanum. Soon afterwards we 

 had a slighter shock, and again at half past three a severe one. The 

 wind was most violent, the thermometer at 65°. 



l\th. — A loud explosion and severe shock at half past seven a. m. ; 

 another at ten ; and then two, very slight. 



12th. — A violent shock at noon, a slight one afterwards. As we 

 were riding home to-day from a little tour by Valle Alegri and the 

 Carices, we found a long strip or bed of sea-weed, and another of 



* The portion of the house built of wooden frame-work and plaistered stood perfectly, 

 only the plaister was shaken off. 



