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EARTHQUAKE IN JA\'A, 1699. 



[Cii. XXX. 







a tradition^ ' that many years before tlie reign of the Incas 



time 



pened a great flood ; the sea breaking out beyond its bounds 

 so that the land was covered with water and all the people 

 perished. To this the Guacas, inhabiting the vale of Xausca 

 and the natives of Chiquito, in the province of Callao. add 



some 



highest mountains^ who again peopled the land. Others of 



mountain people aflirni 



from 



all the inhabitants of that country.' "^ 



On the mainland near Lima, and on the neighbouring 



island 



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ancient bed of the sea had been raised to the height of more 

 than 80' feet above water within the human epoch, strata 

 having been discovered at that altitude, containing pieces 

 of cotton thread and plaited rush, together with sea-weed 



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same 



a civil engineer, that he discovered in the interior near Lima, 

 between Casma and Huaraz, the dried-up channel of a large 

 river, sometimes worn through solid rock, which, instead of 

 continually ascending towards its source, has, in one place, 

 a steep downward slope in that direction, for a ridge or line 

 of hills has been uplifted directly across the bed of the stream, 

 which is now arched. By these changes the water has been 

 turned into some other course ; and a district, once fertile, 

 and still covered with ruins, 

 ancient cultivation, has been converted into a desert.J 



Java^ 1699. — On January 5, 1699, a terrible earthquake 

 visited Java, and no less than 208 considerable shocks were 

 reckoned. Many houses in Batavia were overturned, and 

 the flame and noise of a volcanic eruption were seen and 

 heard in that city, Avhicli were afterwards found to proceed 



and bearing the marks of 



from Mount 

 Next mornii 



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§ a volcano 6 days' journey distant. 

 Batavian river, which has its rise from 



muddv 



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 xi. ch. i. 



t Darwin's Journal, p. 451. 



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