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with beds of muscles, remain dry, and the fish are dead ; which proves 
that the beach is raised about four feet at the Herradura. Above 
these recent shells, beds of older ones may be traced at various 
heights along the shore; and such are found near the summits of 
some of the loftiest hills in Chile, nay, I have heard, among the 
Andes themselves. Were these also forced upwards from the sea, 
and by the same causes? On our return, I picked up on the beach, 
in a little cove where there is a colony of fishermen, a quantity of 
sand, or rather of iron dust, which is very sensible to the magnet. 
It exactly resembles some that was brought me from the Pearl 
Islands lately. Here the rocks are of grey granite, and the soil is 
sand mixed with vegetable mould, and layers of pebbles and sea- 
shells ; some of these upwards of 50 feet above the present beach. 
Nothing can be more lovely than the evening and morning scenery 
here. This evening, as we returned to the house, the snowy Andes 
were decked in hues of rose and vermilion; and the nearer hills in 
dazzling purple, streaming to the ocean, where the sun was setting 
in unclouded radiance. 
Tuesday, 10th. — While sitting at dinner with Lord Cochrane, 
Messrs. Jackson, Bennet, and Orelle, we were startled by the longest 
and severest shock since the first great earthquake of the 19th No- 
vember. Some ran out of the house * (for we now inhabit a part of 
it), and I flew to poor Glennie’s bed-side: it had brought on severe 
hemorrhage, which I stopped with laudanum. Soon afterwards we 
had a slighter shock, and again at half past three a severe one. The 
wind was most violent, the thermometer at 65°. 
11¢h.— A loud explosion and severe shock at half past seven a. M. ; 
another at ten ; and then two, very slight. 
12th. — A violent shock at noon, a slight one afterwards. As we 
were riding home to-day from a little tour by Valle Alegri and the 
Carices, we found a long strip or bed of sea-weed, and another of 
* The portion of the house built of wooden frame-work and plaistered stood perfectly, 
only the plaister was shaken off. 
