AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[THIRD SERIES.] 
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Art. XXXIV.—WNotices of Recent Earthquakes, No. 5; by Pro- 
fessor OC. G. Rockwoop, Jr., Rutgers College. 
Jan. 6, 1874—A shock was felt at Wolf boro, N. H. 
Jan. 14, 1874.—The village of Saru-Kamush, thirty miles 
east of Harpoot, Turkey, ‘ was entirely wretshe fa and a good 
many houses in villages near by were thrown down.” 
Jan. 19, 1874.—A slight shock at San Francisco. 
Jan. 26, 1874.—T'wo shocks at Manchester, N. H., at 2 and 
A. M., the first light, the second heavy. 
Feb. 10, 1874.—There began a series of disturbances in Bald 
and Stone Mountains, McDowell County, N. C., which con- 
tinued at intervals for several months. The phenomena appear 
to have been occasional earthquake shocks, at no time violent, 
but accompanied by explosive and rumbling noises, and oc- 
curring, sometimes two or three in a day, and again with 
Intervals of several days. These increased in frequency and 
Intensity until the night of February 22, when the most severe 
Shock was felt. About March 17 and 26, the shocks were 
again of some intensity, as also on April 14 and 17. A corre- 
spondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Spartan- 
burg, S. ©., under date of March 23, and having just visited 
the affected region, reported experiencing a decided shock, with 
a deep rumbling noise, about sundown of March 18, and another 
on March 19, these being all that he felt during a five days’ 
visit. Another observer says “the sounds resembled re- 
Am, Jour Ser. Tarrp wa ioe IX, No. 538.—May, 1875, 
