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great shock was an exceedingly great agitation of the water and 
the land. The convulsion on the land was so great that all of 
the brick and stone buildings on the Island were more or less 
injured, and some were reduced to a mass of ruins; and a man 
could not keep on his feet without holding on to something. I 
had a boat on shore at the time, and the inflood of the water 
Was so great that it took her into the tops of the trees near the 
ocean, and swept water casks and such things a fourth of a mile 
or more into the country. And when the water receded, it left 
them with hundreds of fish high and dgy, and the land at the 
watering place sank about twelve feet. When the water receded 
it took my ship back with such force that it parted my chain 
and I lost an anchor; she had run over it when the water flowed 
in and then went back with great force. 
I would say that at the time of the first shock, and through 
the night, the wind was very light from the northeast. Several 
ships lying at Apra (the capitol of the Island) lost anchors by 
being covered up at the bottom of the harbor, and they had to 
part or cut their chains. J think there were six lost. The mo- 
tion of the water on the Island was east and west. 
2. Notes from the Journal of Dr. C. F. Winslow.—(1.) Earthquake 
at Lima, March, 1865.—T. J. Pope, Esq., Secretary of Legation 
to the Embassy of Peru at Lima, informs me that on the Ist of 
March 1865, at 64 A.M., he was then on board the U.S. Ship 
Lancastre (acting as secretary to the Admiral), and his attention 
was called by the orderly to the strange agitation of the water 
non he speaks of. 
Lima, April 20, 1865. 
_ Paita, May 15, 1865. ‘ a. 
_ (8.) Earthquake at Amotapa in Aug. 1858.—In 1858, Augus 
28, at 6°6 aa I felt a very severe earthquake at agar 
Made a crack in the river Chira, so that sulphurous fumes and 
Am. Jour. Scr.—Seconp Senres, VoL. XL, No. 120.—Nov., 1865. 
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