92 EARTHQUAKES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTUEY. [Ch. XXVIII 



the Biobio was everywhere parted from the solid rocks which 

 bound the plain, there being an opening between them from 

 an inch to a foot in width. 



' For some days after Febrnary 20, the sea at Talcahnano ' 

 says Captain Fitz Eoy, ^did not rise to the usual marks by 

 4 or 5 feet vertically. When walking on the shore, even 

 at high water, beds of dead mussels, numerous chitons, and 

 limpets, and withered sea-weed, still adhering, though life- 

 less, to the rocks on which they had lived, everywhere me 

 the eye.' But this difference in the relative level of the land 



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merely indicated a temporary disturbance in the set of the 

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