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South American coast, and 25,000 lives were lost. This wave, 
like all the others, traveled the length and breadth of the Pacific. 
- “In Japan, at Hokodate, it was observed by Captain T. B. 
Blakiston, R. A., who very kindly gave me the following account : 
“On August 15, at 10.30 A.M. a series of bores or tidal-waves 
commenced, and lasted until 3 p.m. In ten minutes there was a 
difference in the sea level of ten feet, the water rising above high- 
water and falling below low-water mark with great rapidity. The 
ordinary tide is only two and a half to three feet. The disturb- 
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Fic. 3.—Church of St. Augustine, Manilla, Earthquakes of July 18-20. 1880. 
_ ice producing these waves originated between Iquique and 
Arica, in about lat, 18°28" S. at about 5 p.m., on August 13. In 
Greenwich time this would be about 13 h. ọ m. 40 s., August 13. 
‚e arrival of the wave at Hakodate in Greenwich time would be 
