€LINTON ON THE GREAT LAKES. 338 
‘¢ The connexion which earthquakes (continues Bakewell) have with dis- 
tant volcanoes, and. their frequency at particular periods, are truly remark- 
able. The tremendous earthquakes in 1812, in the Carraccas, were follow- 
ed by an eruption in the Island of St. Vincents, from a volcano that had 
not been burning since 1718, and violent oscillations of the ground were felt, 
both in the Islands and on the coast of America.’ 
The late swell of Lake Erie has been followed by shocks of earthquakes, 
as well at a distance, as in the vicinity. Have we not therefore reason to 
believe, that the extraordinary agitations which sometimes occur in the Lakes, 
are connected with earthquakes, and produced by the same causes ? 
