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"The earthquake of Parati in June, 1861, was quick and oscillating, and was 

 felt in Areias and along the coast, and even at Itajuba. 



"The earthquake of 1824 extended from Caximbu to Picu and was felt in the 

 open country. Though the movements were not sufficient to kill persons or ani- 

 mals or to crack the earth, buildings suffered and men felt a dull, quick, rocking 

 shock." 



6. George Gardner, the English botanist who traveled through 

 Goyaz in 1840, has the following in his Travels in the Interior of 

 Brazil, etc., London (1846), 350: 



"Within the last twenty years, two slight earthquakes have been felt both at 

 Natividade and Conceifao; the first occurred in the year 1826, and the other in 

 1834; the movement of the earth was very perceptibly felt in both places, although 

 they were each of short duration. These were the only places in Brazil where I 

 could learn such phenomena had been observed." 



7. Joao Severiano da Fonseca. — Viagem ao redor do Brasil 

 (1875-78), I, 198. Rio de Janeiro, 1880. 



This writer, in speaking of the province of Matto Grosso, has the following 

 upon earthquakes: 



"The annals of the senate of the chambers of Cuyaba mention an earthquake 

 on September 24, 1749, preceded by a loud noise like subterranean thunder. 



"On one of the walls of the prison at fort Principe da Beira on the Guapore 

 I found the following inscription made there by a prisoner with the point of a 

 style. 'On the i8th of September at two o'clock in the afternoon the earth 

 trembled, 1832.' 



"Another earthquake is registered on October i, i860. 



"On June 26, 1876, at about half-past nine at night, while at the fazenda 

 Cambara near the margin of the Rio Paraguay with the other members of the 

 boundary commission, we felt a sharp shock as we lay in our hammocks and beds, 

 and at the same time there was a rattling of the tiles of the roof as if caused by 

 hail, the whole lasting only a few seconds." 



The last-mentioned place is between the city of Corumba and the mouth of 

 Rio S. Lourenfo. 



8. Richard F. Burton. — The Highlands of the {sic) Brazil, II, 30. 

 London, 1869. 



The author, when near Jaguara in Minas Geraes, made this note in August, 

 1867: "Sr. Leite, an intelligent store-keeper at the Quinta, which is about half 

 a mile from the River, assured me that the ground had lately been subject to 

 shocks, which were most frequent about full moon." 



