J. B. Trask on Earthquakes in California. 345 
i = the Bevieni. The motion is described as undulatory and 
m the west. It was felt at Monterey ~ at Santa 
their beds. Se in 
Sept. 20.—A very severe shock was felt in different parts of 
; San Diego count , and at that town at1l4 o'clock, p.m. At 
: Santa Teabel the ceilings of the dwellings was shaken down; the 
cattle stamped and ran bellowing in all directions, and the In- - 
| dians seemed equally terrified. The walls of the adobe pe 
‘ ings were many of them cracked. The motion is deseri 
rsa A light shock oecurred on the spice te Mondag 
3 © winter par five ; coe autumn, three; ee | the 
. ave taken place durin ng the ver- 
We have aly of pee and violent voleanic phenom- 
ena throughout the northern seas, foe islands both to the east 
and west . Alaska, "The Russian frigate Dwina, while lying’ at 
tam Shu, brings intelligence of the outburst of a volcano in 
that city Beat the 22nd of to and on the 25th of the same 
Month passed through fields of floating pumice ; the latitude by 
eervation ing ae and peg 158° 82’ east per chro- 
m 
An interesting account of a submarine voleano was ela 
by the ge oe the bark Alice Frazer, in latitude 54° 36’; lon 
€ 135° west, which is ag follows: A portion of the ating 
four in aonicn were running tisvegl the Straits of Ouri- 
mel On the 26t last; awhile passing the straits a sub- 
2 aang i on ae a column of water several 
The ibipe < ed and ie re 
the ships Frazer and Wm. Veheden: ; 
D SERIES, VOL. XXIII, NO. 69.—MAY, 1857. 
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: he —A smart shock felt at Santa Cruz, at 8 olehonds Ne ae 
created considerable consternation and many persons lef§t — 
