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Other towns near the coast were severely damaged, Santo Domingo 

 City losing many of its finest buildings. The earthquake of 1751 

 and several other shocks, assigned by Scherer to the central valley 

 of Haiti, are here correlated with the southern fault trough because 

 of high intensities near the coast and the phenomena of the sea- 

 wave. The earthquake of May 11, 19 10, cracked walls in Azua 

 and Santo Domingo City. Scherer states that "the strongest part 

 of the earthquake occurred in the Bay of Ocoa where the sea-wall 

 was broken."^ 



The fault trough apparently continues westward into the Gulf 

 of Gonaive, for there is a marked depression between Gonaive 

 Island and the straight north coast of the Tiburon Peninsula. The 

 earthquake of November 9, 1701, threw down masonry houses on the 

 plains near the western end of the trough, and the road along the 

 north shore of the Tiburon Peninsula from Leogane to Petit Goave 

 sank into the sea. The severe earthquakes of November 21 and 22, 

 1 75 1, destroyed the recently founded town of Port-au-Prince and 

 overthrew buildings on the plain of the Cul de Sac. Lyell states 

 that "part of the coast 20 leagues in length sank down and has ever 

 since formed a bay of the sea, "^ but the writer has found nothing 

 which would confirm this assertion. 



The earthquake of June 3, 1770, was one of the strongest 

 shocks recorded on the Island of Haiti, the area of greatest destruc- 

 tion extending from Croix de Boquets through the plain of the 

 Cul de Sac to Port-au-Prince and along the north coast of the 

 Tiburon Peninsula as far as Miragoane. Southey states that 

 "the sea rose a league and a half up into the island"'^ but does not 

 mention where this occurred. Scherer states that at Grand Goave 

 the foot of the mountain of La Saline was partly submerged and 

 at Arcahaie north of Port-au-Prince, a wave was also recorded.'' 



The earthquake on the night of April 8, i860, originated a Httle 

 farther west than the disturbances previously described, the inten- 



' Rev. J. Scherer, op. cii., p. 172. 



^ Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Vol. I, p. 440, London, 1830. 



3 Thomas Southey, Chronological History of the West Indies, Vol. II, p. 407, 

 London, 1827. 



"i Rev. J. Scherer, op. cit., p. 178. 



