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take shelter in the grove, as the showers of sand penetrate the rancho 
in every direction, and nearly suffocate us. I have tied the branches 
of the quintral that hangs from the maytens to the shrubs below, and 
so made our wall firmer, and our window more shapely, that we may 
look out upon the sea and the hills ; and having stuck four posts into 
the earth, and laid one of the fallen doors upon them, we are furnished 
with an admirable dining-table. 
December Tth. — A slight shock at six a. M., immediately followed 
by a severe one; and another in the evening. 
Lord Cochrane arrived in the Montezuma with Captain Winter 
and Messrs. Grenfell and Jackson. Glennie, who appeared to have 
been gaining ground for a fortnight, had another attack to-day. 
Sunday, 8th.— A very severe shock. 
Monday, 9th.— One very slight shock; the day dull and cloudy ; 
the thermometer at 65° Fahrenheit. In the evening I had a pleasant 
walk to the beach with Lord Cochrane; we went chiefly for the pur- 
pose of tracing the effects of the earthquake along the rocks. At 
Valparaiso, the beach is raised about three feet, and some rocks are 
exposed, which allows the fishermen to collect the clam, or scollop 
shell-fish, which were not supposed to exist there before. We traced 
considerable cracks in the earth all the way between the house and 
the beach, about a mile, and the rocks have many evidently recent 
rents in the same direction: it seemed as if we were admitted to the 
secrets of nature’s laboratory. Across the natural beds of granite, 
there are veins from an inch to a line in thickness. Most of these 
are quite filled up with white shiny particles, I suppose quartz, 
and in some places they even project a little from the face of the 
rock ; others only begin to have their sides coated, and have their 
edges rounded, but are not nearly filled. The cracks of this earth- 
quake are sharp and new, and easily to be distinguished from older 
ones : they run, besides, directly under the neighbouring hills, where 
the correspondent openings are much wider ; and in some instances 
the earth has actually parted and fallen, leaving the stony base of the 
hills bare. On the beach, althoughit was high water, many rocks, 
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