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EARTHQUAKE OE HIND STAN. 



om 



may 



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summit, a new 

 ancient moun- 



modern Yesuvius lias risen from tlie remains of 



Somma 



Jungliulin, who 



exam.1 



the mountain in 1842, was 



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unable to obtain positive proof that there had been a sinkin^ 

 in of the ground, and concluded that, if any, it must have 

 been near the summit of the cone, or where a new crater was 

 formed. He foand that the town and villages destroyed 

 were far distant from the summit, and buried under a mass 

 of ejected materials ; so that they seem to have suffered the 



Herculaneum 



most 



ather than to engulfment. 

 St. Domingo, 1770. 



During 



emen 



lous earthquake 

 which destroyed a great part of St. Domingo, innumerable 

 fissures were caused throughout the island, from which 

 mer»hitic vapours emanated and produced an epidemic. Hot 



springs burst forth m many places where there had been no 

 water before ; but after a time they ceased to flow.f 



In a previous earthquake, in ]N"ovember 1761, a violent 

 shock destroyed the capital, Port au Prince, and part of the 

 coast, twenty leagues in length, sank down, and has ever 



since formed a bay of the sea. J 



Hindostan, 1762.— The town of Chittagong, in Bengal, was 

 violently shaken by an earthquake, on April 2, 1762, the 



manj 



and 



smell. At a place called Bardavan, a 

 large river was dried up ; and at Bar Charra, near the sea, a 



down 



cattle, were lost. It is said, that 60 square 



miles 



■mai 



Toom 



this earthquake, and that Ces-lung 



mountains, entirely disappeared, and another sank so low, 



siimmit 



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* Dr. Horsfielcl, Eatav. Trans. toI. 

 viii. p. 26. Kaffles's account (History 

 of Java, vol. i.) is derived from Hors- 

 field. 



t Essai snr I'Hist. Nat. de Tlsle de 

 St. Domingne. Paris, 1776. 



+ Hist, de I'Acad. des Sciences. 



1752. Paris. 



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liii. 



