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his height is six feet. On that spot, when I was there, tlie 

 ' chores' were barely covered at high spring-tide. 



Ridinff round the island afterwards, with Don Salvador 

 and Vogelborg, I took many measures in places v/here no mis- 

 take could be made. On large steep-sided rocks, where vertical 

 measures could be correctly taken, beds of dead muscles were 

 found ten feet above the recent high-water mark. A few 

 inches only above what was then the spring-tide high-water 

 mark, were putrid shell-fish and seaweed, which evidently had 

 not been wetted since the upheaval of the land. One foot lower 

 than the highest bed of muscles, a few limpets and chitons were 

 adhering to the rock where they had grown. Two feet lower 

 than the same muscles, chitons and limpets were abundant. 



An extensive rocky flat lies around the northern parts of 

 Santa Maria. Before the earthquake this was covered by the 

 sea, some projecting rocks only showing themselves : after it, 

 the whole surface was exposed ; and square acres (or many 

 quadras) of the rocky flat were covered with dead shell-fish, the 

 stench arising from which was abominable. By this elevation 

 of the land the southern port of Santa Maria was almost de- 

 stroyed: there remained but little shelter, and very bad landing: 

 the soundings having diminished a fathom and a half every 

 where around the island. 



At Tubul, to the south-east of Santa Maria, the land was 

 raised six feet. The waves did not enter that river's mouth 

 untU about one o'clock ; and then in greater nvuuber, but with 

 less force, six or seven having been counted. Might not this 

 be owing to the meeting of the divisions of the great wave 

 which passed around Santa Maria. 



At the island of Mocha the shock of the earthquake was so 

 strong that people could not stand. The sea washed over the 

 rocks at the end of the island, higher than it had ever reached 

 in a heavy gale of wind. Anthony Vogelborg was on one of 

 those rocks, or rather on an islet at the south end of Mocha, 

 at the time, with a party who were sealing. Their boat was 

 hauled up on the top of the rocky islet, and, expecting to be 

 washed off, they held by it in readiness. The boat was lying 



