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Almijara, broken and torn by the secular ' disturbances of our 

 globe.' 



"There stood Alhama, now prostrate in the river bed; there 

 Periana, a heap of ruins 3 m. high ; there Albunuelas, which exists 

 no longer ; there Zafarraya, Nerja, Torrox, and many other towns 

 and villages, all testifying to the fragility of these faults, which, 

 though dating back to the Silurian period, are still apparently not 

 completely welded." 



The examination of the map shows that the zone particularly 

 referred to by Mr. Macpherson corresponds precisely to the axis of 

 the antipodal projection of the North and Middle Islands of New 

 Zealand on the map of Spain : that is to the antipodal projection 

 of the zone of maximum volcanic intensity of the North Island. 

 Moreover, the projection of the Coromandel promontory (New 

 Zealand) not only coincides in its limits with the coast line of 

 Malaga, but corresponds to the district represented as having been 

 most affected. Alhama, the point of greatest destruction, lies 

 exactly on the projection of the coast line of the promontory, as 

 also Yelez Malaga, while Malaga lies on the projection of the 

 narrow headland which projects in a north-west direction from 

 that promontory. 



It may thus be asserted that the zone of maximum intensity 

 of the Andalucian earthquake has for antipod the promontory 

 forming the Thames and Coromandel districts of the North Island 

 of New Zealand, the continuation of which, to the south and east, 

 is the Tauranga, or volcanic district, the seat of the disturbance of 

 June the 10th, 1886. 



As regards this, not only has it been fully described by the 

 local press of the country, but it has also formed the subject of 

 two Government Reports — the one by .Dr. Hector, Inspector of 

 Mines, the other by Mr. Percy Smith, Assistant Surveyor- General, 

 Auckland — Reports which have the signal merit of being both well 

 done and quickly published. 



The following extract from Mr. Percy Smith's Report (page 1) 

 gives a description of the district affected : — 



" If a line be drawn nearly south-west (true) from the top of 

 Ruawahia, it will be found to indicate very closely a line of ther- 

 mal action, extending from the base of that mountain to Orakako- 



