246 Onthe Reality of the Rise of the Coast of Chile. 
those built on the sides. Here Mr. Bunster’s statement corroborates 
that of Mrs. Callcott, although Mr. Greenough makes use of it in 
contradiction. 
Mrs. Callcott must here repeat that, at the conclusion of that por- 
tion of his address in which Mr. Greenough’s attack on her is contain- 
ed, p. 19, he says, evidently with a desire to throw discredit upon 
her—‘ Before I quit the subject, it may not be amiss to mention, 
that on comparing the times at which the successive shocks took 
place in Chile, as given by Mrs. Graham, and the other authorities 
to which I have had occasion to refer, the discrepancy is extraordi- 
nary.” Mrs. Callcott, in reply, states, that she had her watch, a 
very good one, made by Grimaldi and Johnson, chronometer makers, 
in her hand at the moment of the first shock. She found that her 
friends at Concon and Valparaiso estimated the time as she did. 
Several ship’s chronometers, which were stopped by the shock, in- 
dicated the same moment. Mr. Clarke, an English merchant, whom 
Mrs. Callcott saw on his arrival at Valparaiso from Conception, told 
her he had observed the time of the shock at Conception, and that 
it agreed with that observed at Quintero. Don Fausto del Hoyo, 
a colonel in the King of Spain’s service, and a prisoner on parole, 
was in the market-place of Quillota when the great shock ruined that 
town. He also agreed with Mrs. Callcott and her friends, as to the 
time; and so did the wretched miners of Illapel. As to the mter- 
vals between the shocks, Mrs. Callcott kept a register sheet of pa- 
per, on which, when she happened to be absent from the spot where 
the writing materials of the party were kept, some one of the others 
entered the time and duration of the shock, and the degree of the 
motion, as indicated by mercury dashing against the side of a glass 
vessel placed upon the ground; therefore, she presumes that her 
estimate of the times of the shocks is likely to be, at least, as accu- 
rate as that of any person to whose observations Mr. Greenough can 
possibly have referred. 
On reading the extracts from Mr. Greenough’s Address, as pub- 
lished in the Atheneum, Mrs. Callcott opened her private journal 
(which had been locked up for some years), whence both the pub- 
lished travels and the letter to Mr. Warburton were extracted, and 
read it carefully over, being unwilling to trust her memory, however 
lively the impression she necessarily received at the time of the Earth- 
quake, of the events that accompanied and followed it. She is hap- 
py to say that the daily, nay, almost hourly, entries in the journal, 
