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No. III.— A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes which occurred on the 16th 

 day of December, 1811, and agitated the parts of North America that lie 

 between the Atlantic Ocean and Louisiana ; and also a particular account 

 of the other quakings of the earth occasionally felt from that time to the 

 23d and 30th of January, and the 7th and 16th of February, 1812, and 

 subsequently to the 18th of December, 1813, and which shook the country 

 from Detroit and the Lakes to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Compiled chiefly at Washington, in the district of Columbia. By Samuel 

 L. Mitchill, Representative in Congress; Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of the State of New- York ; Fellow of the American 

 Antiquarian Society, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the So- 

 ciety for the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New- York, &c. 284 

 The Leading Facts Relative to the Earthquakes which destroyed 

 Venezuela, in South America, in the months of March and April, 1812. 308 



Description of the Volcano and Earthquake which happened in the 

 Island of St. Vincents, on the 30th day of April, 1812. 315 



History of the Earthquakes and Volcanoes in the Azores, particularly 

 in the Islands of St. George t Pico, and St. Michael, and in the ad- 

 joining Ocean, during the years 1808 and 1811. . . . 324 

 The History of that Extensive commotion of the Atmosphere along the 

 Coast of North America, which commenced off Cape Hatteras, on the 

 23d of December, 1811, and proceeded to Massachusetts Bay on the 

 24th, in the form of a northerly Snow-storm, causing an unusual 

 number of shipwrecks in Long-Island Sound, .... 331 

 No. IV.— Hints relative to the most Eligible Method of Conducting Meteorological 

 Observations. By John Griscom, Member of the Medical Faculty of 

 Queen's College, New-Brunswick, (New-Jersey,) of the New-York Histori- 

 cal Society ; Professor of Chemistry in Columbia College, &c. . . 341 

 No. V.— The Fishes of New-York, described and arranged. By Samuel L. 



Mitchill, M. D. Professor, &c. (Accompanied with Engravings.) 355 



No. VI Some Remarks on the Fishes of the Western Waters of the State of 



New-York, in a Letter to Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D. &c. from the Hon. 

 De Witt Clinton, LL. D. President of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of New- York, &c 493 



