254 REPORT— 1898. 



Appeoximatb Time of Cable FAii.vuES—conti)iMd. 



No. 



Approximate 



Month 



Day 



Time 



Name of Cable 



Exact Time of Eavtliquake 



Day 



Hour, G.M.T. & Remarks 



1898. 



Para-Maranham 

 Curagao-La Guayra. 

 Saigon-Hong Kong 

 Para Camela Cable 

 Para-Maranham 

 Puerto Plata-C. Haiti 

 Paramaribo- Cay enne 

 Bolama-Bissao . . . 



Emden-Vigo . . . 



Lattique-Chypre . 



Bolama-Bissao . . 



Bolama-Bissao . . . 



Aden-Zanzibar . . . 



Amazon cable be- 

 yond Obidos . . 



San Thome-Loanda 



Gibraltar-Tangier . . 



Lourengo Marques- 

 Durban .... 



Cayenne-Pinheiro . . 



Havre-Waterville . . 



Odessa-Constantinople 



Amazon Cable beyond 

 Gurupa 



Sierra Leone-Accra 



Cape Town - Mossa- 

 meJes 



Maranham-Para . . 



Benguela-Mossamedes 



24 



r 5 



1 7 



8 



9 



IG 



18 



19 



2h. 41m. 2s. p.m. &; 

 3h. 7m. ]5s. Z'.M. 



llh. 45iu. 40s. P.M. 



8h. 3Gm. 1.3s. a.m. 

 llh. 35m. 20s. P.M. 

 llh. 5ra. 47s. p.m. 

 lOh. 57m. 3Cs. P.M. 

 5h. 9m. 8s. P.M. 

 5h.0m.0s. P.M. Toronto 

 record. 



Owing to repairs. 



To effect repairs. 



* Kotanu ; is also called 

 Novo, a few miles inland.) 

 t Thunau, also called Hue. 



Porto Novo sometimes. (Kotanu is on the coast, Porto 



The earthquake records are not continued beyond February 19, 1898. 



The three breaks which took place in November and December, 1897, 

 on the San Thome-Loanda line did so at the same place about 150 miles 

 off the north of the Congo, where there is a depth of some 1,300 fathoms. 



Mr. R. Kaye Gray points out that here we have a liver bed extending 

 seawards as a deep guUey the walls of which are 2,000 feet in height. 

 In 1,550 fathoms a strong under-current renders it difficult to obtain 

 soundings. In the mouth of the Congo there is a depth of only ten 

 fathoms, and it does not seem likely that the rivers flowing over this 

 shallow would dive down to produce the under-tow observed at a distance 

 of 150 miles off the coast. ^Ir. Gray's idea is that we have here a case of 

 subterranean water bursting out in the bed of the ocean, moving heavy 

 detritus across the calile to cause interruption, whilst lighter particles rise 

 to the surface to discolour the ocean. There is no evidence suijjrcsting 

 that these failures were any way connected with seismic phenomena. 



