July, 1887.] ELLIOTT SOCIETY. 147 



Sunday. The boys came in with a qneer tale of earthquakes in SumnierAT.lle. 

 H. insists that was what he felt on Friday ; ' It was not fever, ' he says, ' else 

 why should it have bothered me at that moment and neither before nor after?' 

 I question the earthquake notion, else why did not I, just beside him, feel it 

 also? 



Wednesday noon, Sept,, 1st. . . . I had been down town 



and was on my homeward way, in the middle of Meeting St, road- 

 way, just by the Guard House, when I heard the coming roar. Suddenly re- 

 membering the shattered condition of St. Michael's, I looked up in dread at its 

 steeple ; it rocked, but did not fall. " 



Mr. J. Irving Westervelt, wi'iting fi'om Summer ville, says : 



' * Not having seen any account of an upheaval of sea sand and small sea 

 shells, I have pleasure in mentioning such deposit, to be found upon the sur- 

 face, from a ' geyser ' within three miles of this place, in the open pineland and 

 between this and Ladson Station on the S. C. E. R. . . . So far 



as I have yet discovered, this is the only geyser where the orifice remains open 

 [April 2d,] to the depth of ten or fifteen feet or more." 



Dr. G. E. Manigault's notes are : 



Havhstg become somewhat familiar with earthquakes from experience with 

 the few shocks felt in Charleston during the last forty years, and from encount- 

 ering others in other countries, I immediately recognized the slight movement 

 of Friday, 27th August, about 5 a. m. , as produced by an earthwave. The dis- 

 turbance was however so slight that the direction from which it came was not 

 appreciable to me, nor would it have been, unless some delicate test had been 

 prepared beforehand for indicating it. 



The shock of Tuesday night, the 31st August, was felt at 10 minutes to 10. 

 I was on the basement floor of my residence, about two feet above the surround- 

 ing soU, engaged in a game of chess, with my face to the West. A member of 

 the household was seated at a Western window of the same room, about 20 feet 

 from me. He heard the rumbhng noise and felt the shock before I did, and 

 immediately left the room, the two players being stUl seated as he passed us. 

 The shock proving to be unexpectedly violent the other three persons in the 

 room, iucluding myself, hurried out to an adjacent garden walk, and. as I 

 stood there, I felt distinctly a succession of waves passing under my feet, and 

 moving in a direction a little N. of E. As it passed beyond me, I could hear 

 from that direction the duU sound of crushed waUs and falling chimnies with a 

 few human cries. 



The shock appeared to me to be a succession of waves following each other 

 at tolerably regular intervals. As I stood up in the garden, when the move- 

 ment was more than half over, there seemed to pass under my feet from three 



