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 1th 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 Colum- 

 bia. By Samuel L. Mitchill, Representative in Congress, 8Cc. 



[Read before the Society on the 14th of April, and the 12th of May, 1814.] 



The beautiful comet which travelled through the northern celestial 

 hemisphere during 1811, had offered itself plainly to view until the 

 approach of the following year. Its elements, as calculated by Nathaniel 

 Bowditch, Esq. and his learned associates, have already been placed 

 before the public eye. 



The tremendous storm from the northeast, near the end of December, 

 1311, began to let ward, near Cape Hatteras, and swept the American 

 coast to the banks of Newfoundland, doing great damage to navigation, 

 and exhibiting some curious facts in the history of the atmosphere. 

 The particulars of this furious and memorable tempest have been 



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