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slight damage occurred. April 29, 1897, shocks felt at Antigua, St. 

 Kitts, Dominica, and Guadeloupe, where considerable damage was 

 done to buildings. December to January 1897-98 and September and 

 October 1900, shocks of some intensity occurred in Montserrat and 

 slight shocks were frequent in Antigua. December 3, 1906, in Antigua, 

 and as far south as Barbados, slight damage occurred to buildings in 

 most islands. 



Bahamas. — Commissioner P. W. B. Armbrister says that no de- 

 structive earthquakes have occurred at Inagua since 1896. In Septem- 

 ber 1887, however, in two or three weeks shocks were felt nearly every 

 day. They were preceded by rumblings which came from the south. 

 Boundary walls and a few old buildings were thrown down; a con- 

 siderable number of stone buildings were slightly cracked. It was 

 at this time that the city of Port de Paix, Haiti, was partly destroyed. 

 The Inspector of Lighthouses, Mr. F. J. Lobb, reports that earth- 

 quakes were experienced on September 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1887, at the 

 following lighthouses : Inagua, Castle Island, Bird Kock, and Watling 

 Island. One on September 23 at 7 a.m. and 8.10 p.m. local time was 

 the most severe, and caused trifling damage. 



Barbados. — H.E. the Governor reports that there are no records 

 of destructive earthquakes. 



Bermuda. — The Governor, Lieut. -Gen. Walter Kitchener, reports 

 that no earthquake has occurred in Bermuda coming under the heading 

 of the Circular of the Seismological Committee since the settlement of 

 the colony in 1612. 



Dominica. — The Hon. W. H. Porter says that during his forty 

 years' experience of the island he only recollects one earthquake 

 of any force. This occurred between four and six years ago. It 

 exerted its greatest force in the northern half of the island, where a 

 masonry chimney was wrenched. At the other extremity of the island 

 the walls of a village church were slightly damaged. Shocks are felt 

 with greater frequency in the northern and eastern district than to 

 the south and west of the central mountain chain. 



Grenada. — The Colonial Secretary, E. E. Drayton, sends an 

 extract from the history section of the Grenada handbook referring to 

 severe earthquakes in 1766, November 18, 1867, and January 10, 1888. 



Hayti. — Consul-General Alex. P. Murray sends a short description 

 of destructive earthquakes which occurred in 1564, 1770, May 7, 1842, 

 September 23, 1887. The frequent slight earthquake shocks at Port- 

 au-Prince are generally preceded by a subterranean noise which 

 approaches from the plains and passes beneath the town. No move- 

 ment of the earth is perceptible. The Haytians call it ' le gouffre, ' 

 or ' le bruit de gouffre. ' 



Montserrat. — Lieut. -Colonel W. B. Davidson-Houston states that, 

 with the exception of the earthquake of February 8, 1843, there do 

 not appear to have been any earthquakes of a serious nature within 

 recent years. In 1896-7-8-9, and again in 1901-2-3, there were 

 numerous slight shocks, but none of these did more than very slight 

 damage, although their frequency made them very alarming. A copy 

 of President Baynes' speech to the Montserrat Legislature on the 

 subject of the earthquake of 1843 was enclosed. 



