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have not seen his work and do not kn jw whether it can be found in any hbrary 

 in this City. 



4. In October, 1860, I think, the precise date 1 cannot now give, there hap- 

 pened another shock, which was not perceived by me, as I was paying a visit at 

 the Charleston Hotel to friends recently arrived in the City, and amid the con- 

 versation of several parties in the room, and the noises in the adjacent street, 

 I did not distinguish the sound, but on returning home found that it had been 

 perceived there by several members of my family. I think that it was also 

 mentioned by the papers of that date. 



5. At some time in the Spring of the present year, 1886, I went, on a Mon- 

 day morning, into the gallery of the Library of the College, and to my great 

 surprise, found that a number of volumes ]:)iled on the floor of the gallery, 

 against the Eastern wall, were now lying in a sloping pile on the floor, spread 

 out over nearly the whole breadth of the gallery, and with other books on the 

 floor on the other side, completely barricading the passage through the gallery. 

 I had visited the gallery on Friday, and had left the books in order. The key 

 of the Library was kept in President Shepherd's room in the College, and ex- 

 cepting the Janitor, no other person, as far as we know, had access to it, but 

 myself. I immediately made inquiry, and learned that neither of the two had 

 been in the Library since I left on Friday, nor had any visitor asked for the 

 key to enter on the intervening Saturday and Sunday. President Shepherd 

 asked me what could have caused the fall, I replied, there could be but one 

 cause, an earthquake shock. This event had nearl}^ passed from my recollec- 

 tion when President Shepherd reminded me of it on his return to this City afc 

 the beginning of October, 1886, and told me he thought it had occurred about 

 April, perhaps somewhat earlier. 



6. About the same time, but I cannot recollect whether before or after, a 

 member of my family told me one morning that she had felt a decided earth- 

 quake shock during the quiet hours of the preceding night, and had also heard 

 the accompanying rumbling sound. As no such occurrence was afterwards 

 mentioned either publicly or privately, we considered it doubtful, although 

 she still retained her conviction of its certainty. Now, I feel sure that she was 

 right. I have been told that several other persons at different times had simi- 

 lar experiences, but I cannot quote them as they were not communicated to me 

 in writing. 



7. Near the end of June, .1886, during the sitting of one of the courts in this 

 City, the assembly was startled by a loud noise and a violent shock, sufficient, 

 ii I remember rightly, to shake the building. A few days after the newspa- 

 pers attributed it to the explosion of a boiler somewhere in the City, but I can- 

 not recollect ^hat this was ever proved. 1 have had search made in the papers 

 issued about that date to find the paragraphs relating to those events, but with- 

 out success ; nor have 1 been able to obtain the date from persons present. My 

 chief reason for hesitating to say that it was a real shock is that I do not recol- 

 lect hearing that it was perceived in Summer ville. 



8. On Friday, August 27th, 1886, at 9.30 a. m., a decided shock was felt at 



