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canal, is reported to have sunk ten feet, showing that the shock 
extended to Ohio. The ground sunk bodily, leaving a perpendicular 
wall of ten feet or more on all sides. The canal bank was seriously 
‘ endangered by the subsidence. 
' 2. On the 
oleanic eruption near the city of Leon ; by Hon. 
city of Leon, on a crowded line of volcanos running through the 
State parallel to the Pacific coast. 
It commenced about one o’clock in the mornin 
with a succes- 
sion of explosions, which were distinctly felt and heard.at Leon. 
These explosions opened a fissure through the earth crust about 
half a mile in length, running from the old fissure in 
+ and Orota, which are two of the numerous cones studding the an- 
ures 
: cient fiss 
Before daylight on the morning of the 14th, fire was seen issui 
the new volcano in various places. The exp 
uing 
losions contin- 
. P 
ued regularly during the whole time that the voleano was ina 
State of eruption, sometimes in rapid succession, and at other 
times at intervals of half an hour. Low, rumbling 
days two craters 
: Were opened on the new fissure, about a thousand 
ity dischaecihe- $e 
heard almost incessantly. In the course oft few 
; one at the southwestern extremit cha 
built 
feet, 
sounds were 
eet apart, the 
and the other shooting out toward the northeast at an angle of 
i 1. irc 
about sixty feet in diameter, which was constantly filled to 
