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showing between the water and the forest which here comes to the 
shore. In a few places this beach, as seen from a distance of not 
over a mile, seemed to be missing, the water reaching amongst the 
trees, the foliage of which appeared to be dried and withered as if 
recently killed by a subsidence which had admitted the sea. 
EFFECT ON SEA BOTTOM 
Kingston harbor.—Immediately following the earthquake many 
stories were circulated as to the obstruction of the harbor by mud 
flows, etc., but soundings in its channel showed that it had not been 
materially altered and vessels of deep draft soon entered and left 
as usual. Inasmuch as the bottom is prevailingly soft, and as the 
soft materials at Port Royal were much disturbed, there was doubtless 
much flowage wherever the bottom possessed any considerable 
inclination. ‘The action was most marked, along the shores of Port 
Royal, where the bordering bottom sunk many feet in places, accom- 
panied by a corresponding rise at a point farther out, or by at least 
an outward flowage of the soft deposits. 
Sea bottom off coast——On the sea bottom there appears, on the 
contrary, to have been disturbances of great magnitude, the center 
being, it is stated, some three or four miles off shore at a point south- 
east of the mouth of Hope River at the east end of the Palisadoes 
where they are attached to the mainland. In this locality the bottom 
is reported to have been decidedly roughened by movements of its 
soft materials, resulting in the breaking of the cable at points from 
three and one-half to fifteen miles off the coast. Several miles were 
so twisted, broken, or buried that new cable had to be laid. No 
such action occurred anywhere on or near the land, and, if accounts 
are to be relied upon, this is to be regarded as the region of greatest 
disturbance. 
EFFECTS ON FORESTS 
The action of the Jamaica earthquake on forests was relatively 
slight. On the mountains a few insecurely rooted trees were more 
or less tilted and some dead trees are reported to have fallen. The 
chief destruction, however, was by avalanches which not infrequently 
made paths many feet wide for several thousand feet down the moun- 
tain sides. On the Palisadoes and in similar situations where the 
