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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 



considered in Chronological Order— Earthquake in New Zealand— Permanent 

 Upheaval and Subsidence of Land — A Eault produced in the Eocks— Earth- 

 quake in Syria, 1837— Earthquakes in Chili in 1837 and 1835— Isle of Santa 

 Maria raised ten Eeet— Chili, 1822— Extent of Country, elevated— Earthquake 

 of Cutch in 1819— Subsidence in the Delta of the Indus— Island of Sumbawa in 

 1815— Earthquake of Caraccas in 1812— Shocks at New Madrid in 1811 in the 

 Valley of the Mississippi p^^.^ g^ 



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CHAPTER XXIX. 



EARTHQUAKES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



Earthquakes of the Eighteenth Century— Quito, 1797— Sicily, 1790— Calabria, 



■Shocks continued to the end of the Year 1786 — Authorities 



-Eounding of detached Masses into the Air — Difficulty 



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Area convulsed— Geological Structure of the District— Movement in the 

 Stones of two Obelisks 



of ascertaining Changes of Level— Subsidence of the Quay at Messina— Shift or 

 Fault in the Eound Tower of Terranuova— Opening and Closing of Fissures 

 Large Edifices engulfed — Dimensions of New Caverns and Fissures— Gra- 

 dual Closing in of Eents— Derangement of River Courses— Landslips— Buildings 

 transported entire to great Distances— New Lakes— Funnel-shaped Hollows L 

 Alluvial Plains— Currents of Mud— Fall of Cliffs, and Shore near Scilla inun- 

 dated—State of Stromboli and Etna during the Shocks— Origin and Mode of 

 Propagation of Earthquake Waves— Depth of the Subterranean Source of the 

 Movement— Number of Persons who perished during the Earthquake of 1783— 

 Concluding Remarks ii2 



CHAPTER XXX. 



EARTHQUAKES — Continued. 



Earthquake of Java, 1772— Truncation of a lofty Cone-St. Domingo, 1770- 

 Lisbon, 1775— Great Area over which the Shocks extended— Eetreat of the 

 Sea— Proposed Exphmations— Conception Bay, 1750— Permanent Elevation- 

 eru, 1746— Java, 1699— Eivers obstructed by Landslips— Subsidence in 



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Sicily, 1693— Moluccas, 1693— Jamaica, 1692— Large Tracts engulfed— Portion 

 of Port Eoyal Sunk— Amount of Change in the last 170 years— Elevation and 

 Subsidence of Land in Bay of Baia?- Evidence of the same afforded by the 

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CHAPTER XXXI. 



ELEVATION AND SUBSIDENCE OF LAND WITHOUT EARTHQUAKES. 



Changes in the relative Level of Land and Sea in Eegions not Volcanic— Opinion 

 of Celsius that the Waters of the Baltic Sea and Northern Ocean were sinking 



Proofs of the Stability of the Sea Level in 

 Playfair's Hypothesis that the Land was rising in Sweden— Opinion 



■Objections raised to his Opinion 

 the Baltic 



Signs of 



of Von Buch-Marks cut on the Eocks-Survey of these in 1820- ^..^..^ - 

 Oscillations m Level-Fishing Hut buried under Marine Strata-Facility of 

 appreciating slight Alterations of Level on the inner and outer Coast of Swe- 

 den—Supposed Movement in opposite Directions in proceeding from the North 



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