336 Volcamc Eruptions and Earthquakes. 
Carthagena, and accompanied the governor of that port in a recon- 
naissance, both fearing that the firmg proceeded from some vessel in 
want of succor. 
Finally, every where the noise was supposed to proceed from the 
immediate vicinity. 
In addition to the above, an official communication from the city 
of Nacaome describes the pyramidal cloud on the summit of Cosi- 
guina at half past 6, A.M. Itseemed of many hues and great den- 
sity and at some height separated into two parts, one spreading over 
the summit of Conchagua, and the other towards the peak of Per- 
spire. Here the ground and buildings were covered to the depth of 
seven or eight inches with fine dust and coarse sand in which were 
found birds of all kinds suffocated. Some quadrupeds from the for- 
est, sought shelter in the town, and the rivers fille’ with the volca- 
nic substances, cast upon their shores an innumerable quantity of 
fishes in a torpid state and some dead. 
A letter from Omoa speaks of the earthquake and of several erup- 
tions by which were wholly submerged three large towns and sever- 
al petty villages with parts of the ports of St. Miguel and St. Sal- 
vadore. Five of the eruptions had continued for eight days, and 
scattered rocks, stones and cinders in all directions to the distance 
of sixty leagues. One of them burst forth within twenty miles of 
Truxillo, and another occurred near Balire.”’ 
The volcanic agency seems to have operated on an extensive 
scale, and to have had vent in a great number of places, and the 
country from Bogota about 4$° N., 74° 14’ W., throughout the 
whole isthmus, certainly as far north as Balire (more than one thou- 
sand miles) was convulsed or affected by the concussion.* 
2. Earthquake in Chili, Feb. 20, 1835. 
The accounts received through commercial sources, of this earth- 
quake, are so remarkable, that we shall give a pretty full abstract of 
their contents. 
One of the most terrific and destructive convulsions with which this 
devoted country has ever been visited, commenced on the 2Oth of 
February, 1835—occasioned, as is said by the eruption of the volca- 
no of Antuco, in about the latitude of Conception, and about thirty 
leagues from the coast. The first and most disastrous shock occur- 
* The terror of the inhabitants at Alancho (anticipating the approach of the 
judgment day) was so great, that three hundred of those who lived in a state of con- 
cubineage, were married at once. 
