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tinctly subterranean, died away in the direction of Salem, but was not 

 perceived there. Enquiries made immediately after proved satisfactorily 

 that the explosions could not have been due to any thing but an earth- 

 quake, which was the impression they instantly made on the mind. 



Another shock was noticed in 1861, in Salem district, but not by 

 any member of the Geological Sm-vey. Some of the natives at Careputty 

 were rather alarmed by the loud subterranean explosions, which seemed 

 new to them. 



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