NOTES ON THE JAMAICA EARTHQUAKE pe 
was such that a lagoon formerly separated from the salt water by a 
beach twenty yards in width and two or three feet high was covered 
by the sea. Perhaps the most conspicuous change of level was at 
the extreme south-west point of the Palisadoes at the entrance of the 
harbor, where a body several hundred feet in length and breadth 
sunk beneath the waters of the ocean. Fig. 7, which represents 
a view of this point, shows the palm trees and shrubs, still upright, 
Fic. 7.—Submerged, land at southwest termination of the Palisadoes at Port 
Royal. (Photo by Fuller.) 4 
projecting from the water. The subsidence, which here seems to 
have been from ten to twenty feet, was probably due to a sort of flowage 
of the loose water-saturated sands underlying the surface at a depth 
of a few feet. A mangrove swamp on the harbor side of the Pali- 
sadoes is reported to have sunk ten feet. 
In addition to the cases mentioned, what may possibly be a case 
of subsidence was seen from the steamer off Morant Point at the 
east end of Jamaica, some forty miles from Kingston. The shore 
at this locality is low for some distance, only a narrow strip of beach 
