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Disenchantment Bay. — In Disenchantment Bay this shock was severe 

 enough to throw a man off his feet. There was movement of the ground 

 and low shrubs shook and were bent as if in a strong wind.^^ There 

 were less severe shocks all the forenoon, fifty of which were counted by 

 Mr. Flenner, one of the prospectors. 



Yahutat.—R. W. Beasley^^ ^nd C. E. HilP^ state that the early shock 

 September 10, at Yakutat Village, made the one of the week before pale 

 with insignificance. Lamps swung, trees swayed, houses creaked and 

 groaned, sleeping people were awakened and rushed out of doors without 

 dressing. The shock lasted 3 seconds. Mr. Hill gives the time as 8 a. m., 

 and Mr. Beasley 7.40, the latter being thought correct because it agrees 

 closely with the seismograph records, as does his time record for the 

 heavier shock the same day. 



More distant points. — At the Coast Survey camp at Cape Whitshed, on 

 the Copper Elver delta, Messrs. Eitter and Latham describe the first 

 shock as light but distinct, lasting a few seconds, at 7.43 a. m., local time, 

 at Cape Whitshed (not the first shock). These times were obtained from 

 a good and well-rated chronometer. The earth vibrated. The weather 

 was calm and cloudy, with occasional showers. The after-shocks include 

 one at 8.01 ; distinct continuous vibrations, lasting over 100 seconds, at 

 lOh. 38m. 34s. ; a shock which lasted 15 seconds and caused the camp 

 flagstaff to vibrate violently, at lOh. 53m. 45s. ; a shock violent at the be- 

 ginning and tapering off toward the end, at lOh. 59m. 55s., the vibra- 

 tions being continuous for 180 seconds and in a northwest-southeast 

 direction, and a shock lasting 30 seconds at llh. 5m. 5s. 



Tn the Chiigach Mountains Lieutenant Babcock felt a slight shock, 

 lasting eight or ten seconds, at 7.08 a. m. ; Dr. L. S. Camicia observed it 

 at Valdez at 7 a. m. Ninety miles east of Yakutat, Sergeant A. E. 

 Acland, of the Eoyal Northwest mounted police, at Dalton House, north 

 of the Saint Elias Eange, recorded it at 7 a. m. At another post. Car- 

 macks, on the Yukon Eiver, 190 miles northeast of Yakutat, it was ob- 

 served at 8.15 a. m. At Skagway, Juneau, and other points observations 

 of this earthquake were also made. 



After-shocks, beside the fifty recorded in Disenchantment Bay, include 

 many at Yakutat Village, fifteen or twenty at Dalton House north of the 

 Saint Elias Eange, ten or more at Cape Whitshed, five in the Chugach 



31 J. p. Fults, Jr. : Seattle Dally Times, September 28, 1800 ; New York Sun, Septem- 

 ber 20, 1800. 



L. A. Cox : The Sitka Alaskan, October 14, 1800. 

 3a The Sitka Alaskan, September 16, 1800. 

 33 San Francisco Examiner, dispatch dated Seattle, September 21, 1800. 



