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blew down many of the already weakened houses. At Almu- 
fiecar twelve shocks occurred in fifteen minutes. At Periana, 
a landslip overwhelmed a large part of the town, destroying a 
church and 750 houses. At Guevejar, a great semi-circular 
crevasse has surrounded the town on its upper side and the 
village, which rests on clay strata, is slowly sliding downward 
to the bed of the river Cogollos, some of the houses having 
already moved 27 meters up to January 16. 
The provinces of Granada and Malaga have thus been the 
scene of the greatest destruction. Official reports up to Janu- 
ary 14, state the number of persons injured in Granada as 695 
killed and 1480 wounded. Other accounts estimate the entire 
loss of life as upwards of 2000. Thirty-five villages are named 
where a greater or less number of victims were taken from the 
ruins 
As bearing on the possible connection of earthquakes with 
atmospheric phenomena it is noted that an unusually high 
atmospheric pressure. prevailed over the Spanish peninsula 
during the first-half ot December, while on December 20, a 
heavy storm, attended by unusual depression of the barometer, 
struck the northern coast, and passing southward, reached the 
Mediterranean Sea on December 22, just previous to the great 
earthquake. 
The geological relations of this earthquake may be seen from 
the following extract from remarks of Mr. J. MacPherson to 
the Spanish Natural History Society, reported in Nature (vol. 
XXXi, p. 278). 
intermediary mountain mass is a segment of a more considerable 
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thick mantle of sediment which now overlies it, and its structure 
1s easily accounted for as the result of that great fracture which 
Cro: he peninsula from northwest to heen and in the 
bed... ; 
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prolongation of which lies the region now described....... 
