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a hammock reports that it felt as if someone were jerking the cords of his ham- 

 mock. The iron stirrups of saddles hanging against a wall were rattled together. 



At Moita on the fazenda Ingazeira, west side of the Salitre Valley, the shock 

 occurred between 7 and 8 p.m. Hammocks swung, dishes and pans rattled. 

 Similar disturbances were felt at Retiro on the upper part of Rio Ingazeira. 



It was felt by many, but not by all, at the city of Morro do Chapeo. A priest 

 lying in a hammock noted that it began to swing; in the shops the bottles on the 

 shelves rattled against each other; a partly opened door slammed; a man leaning 

 against the wall of a house felt it give way and thought it about to fall. 



The limits of the area affected were not determined with any clearness. It 

 was not felt at all at Alagoinhas or Aramary, but it was not ascertained certainly 

 whether it was noticed at Serrinha or Queimadas. It has not been possible to 

 jBjid out whether it was felt north and west of the Rio S. Francisco. The outlines 

 of the area affected are shown on the accompanying map as nearly as present 

 knowledge permits. 



The other two areas shown on the map are that about Rio de 

 Janeiro, suggested by the data furnished by Dom Pedro II (reference 

 9), and the one suggested by the notes of Senator Pompeo de Souza 

 (reference 3). 



The Matto Grosso area is represented as extending westward 

 indefinitely. It is so shown because it is assumed that the slight 

 earthquakes that have been felt in that region originate in the 

 Andean country to the west. 



The following notes of negative value are not without interest : 



A. Collie. — Geological Observations on the Neighbourhood of 

 Rio de Janeiro. Capt. F. W. Beechey's Narrative of a Voyage to 

 the Pacific and Behring Strait, London, 183 1, II, 159. 



This writer says: "Respecting earthquakes at Rio de Janero, I could get no 

 further information than that they are rare." 



Francis de Castelnau. — Expedition dans les parties centrales de 

 I'Amerique du Sud. Histoire du voyage. Paris, 1850. I, 202. 



This author suggests that certain steep-sided ravines near Barbacena may be 

 due to earthquakes, but he makes no mention of earthquakes having been 

 reported. 



In Vol. II at p. 83 he says that earthquakes are quite unknown 

 in the central parts of Brazil. 



When it is remembered that Brazil occupies an area almost as large 



