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GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES 



[Ch. XXIII. 



and inroads of the sea. 'It is not impossible that the story 

 of the bursting of the Black Sea through the Thracian Bos- 



accom 



as some 



caused the Samothracian 



may 



reference to a wave or succession of waves, raised in the 



same 





We 



tions are often attended not only by incursions of the sea, but 

 also by violent rains, and the complete derangement of the 



dammin 



up of the outlets of lakes by landslips, or obstructions in the 

 courses of subterranean rivers, such as abound in Thessaly 



Morea. We 



variety of causes assigned for the traditional floods of Greece, 

 by Herodotus, Aristotle, Diodorus, Strabo, and others. As 

 to the area embraced, had all the Grecian deluges occurred 



many 



extremely 



limit 



Macedonia 



devastation would 



still ' have been more limited than that already alluded to 

 p. 580, which visited Chili in 1835, when a volcanic eruption 

 broke out in the Andes, opposite Chiloe, and another at Juan 

 Fernandez, distant 720 geographical miles, at the same 

 time that several lofty cones, in the Cordillera, 400 miles 

 to the eastward of that island, threw out vapour and ignited 

 matter. Throughout a great part of the space thus recently 

 shaken in South America, cities were laid in ruins, or the land 

 was permanently upheaved, or mountainous waves rolled in- 

 land from the Pacific. 



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Hoff. 



Italy.— It has been remarked by Von 

 commencement of the thirteenth to the latter half of the 

 seventeenth century, there was an almost entire cessation of 

 earthquakes in Syria and Judea ; and, during this interval of 

 H „* w ™~, the Archipelago, together with part of the ad- 

 jacent coast of Lesser Asia, as also Southern Italy and Sicily, 

 suffered greatly from earthquakes ; while volcanic eruptions 

 were unusually frequent in the same regions. 



quiescence 



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