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in some manner with the action of the internal forces which 
produced that series of earthquakes, one of the paced See 
also 
observed upon the coast of Chili, at Talcahuana, at % 30 < fo) relogky 
the same afternoon, without earthquakes. What is very extra- 
ordinary also, the waters of the Marafion were equally disturbed 
the same night on which the earthquake agitated the coast of 
the Pacific, as we learn by the letter of a Jesuit missionary lo- 
— among the Indians east of the Andes. Without knowing 
ad happened at Lima, he writes as follows: “On the 
28th Oct..(1746), apparently about midnight (for here we do not 
<now exact time), a very strong earthquake occurred at this 
mission. I slept at the time in a ravine of the Marafion where 
nothing was perceived but great waves encountering from above 
and below, which threatened the canoes with injury ; and as 
there was no wind, we do not understand the cause.’ 
tendimos la causa.” P. loan Deiat de la uipunes de 
Jesus Lrimaquas, Nov. 23,1746.) This mission was ‘200 leagues 
from Lima.” The convalsion which overthrew Callao and Firma 
occurred at 10.30 o'clock P. M. on the 28th of Oct., “five and thre 
quarters hours before the full moon.” Nothing unusual sec" 
in the appearance of the ocean until 4 o’clock P. M. on the 30th, 
noticed, swelled in aoe aie iad, {In connection with this 
record I will take occasion to correct an error which prevails in 
the books relative to “the submergence of the old city of 
Callao.” By careful neprmsstes ets of the entire locality and of 
This I have determined by some personal hazard and numerous 
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