162 PROCEEDINGS OP THE [Julj, 1887. 



V. To tlie foregoing I will add a few observations made on buildings in the 

 City, continuing tlie succession of numbers. 



41. The chimneys of tlie house No. 36 Coming St., E. side, next S. of my res- 

 idence, fell within a few feet of the piazza of my house, the whole of the por- 

 tion projecting above the roof being included in the falling mass, and as the 

 northern surface of these projecting portions was continuous with the surface 

 of the north wall of the building, they fell almost entirely clear of the building, 

 a few bricks only breaking the eaves of the tiling, and injiu'ing the gutters in 

 some degree. The middle point of the projecting part of the western chim- 

 ne}', was about 45 ft. above the ground, and this mass fell in direction N. 35° 

 AV. , and the central portion as it lay on the ground, was estimated to be about 

 18 f fc. from the north wall of that building, some of the bricks rolling about 5 

 ft. further, blocking up my street door on the inside. The eastern chimney 

 fell in like manner, but falling among shrubbery less attention was given to it. 

 The arches over the flues of these chimneys were blown away in the cyclone of 

 25th Aug., 1885., but had been replaced soon after. 



42. On the morning after the earthquake I observed, lying in the upper piazza 

 of the house at S. W. corner of Bull and Coming S< s. , a pile of bricks, which 

 had evidently come from the eastern chimney of the house next south of it, 

 both houses being on the west side of Coming St. By personal examination I 

 found that the hand rail and balusters of the piazza were not broken, though 

 they showed marks of the battery to which they had been exposed. The bricks 

 in the piazza must therefore have passed above it, and I And by measurement 

 that the hand rail is 13 ft. from the groimd and about 13 ft. from the estima- 

 ted centre of the chimney, which was enclosed within the wooden building to 

 which it belonged. By measured lines, and angle with pocket sextant, the 

 summit of the x^resent chimne5% (rebuilt) is 26 ft. from the ground-; the for- 

 mer chimney was most probably a foot or two higher. The bearing from the 

 chimney of the marks on the hand rail is N. 10° W. by compass. 



43. In the S.E. room of the College Museum, in east wing (now taken down,) 

 there was a case containing minerals or shells, about 3 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, and 

 12 ft. long, placed parallel to the front of the College, which faces about S. 30° 

 E. In consequence of the bending downwards of the floor, from the weight 

 resting on it, several of the legs of this case had been furnished with small 

 pieces of wood placed under them, and tacked to the floor, to preserve the hori- 

 zontality of the case. Several days after the shock. I obtained access to the 

 Museum to see its condition, and found this case north of its former position, 

 and nearly parallel to it, each leg about a foot distant from its former position, 

 (as marked by those bits of wood,) in direction N. 10" W. by compass. In the 

 S. VV. room (now taken down) there was a similar case, similarly placed. This 

 I foimd obhque to its former position, the eastern end north of its former po- 

 sition, the western one stiU farther south of its former position, so that the 

 rotation was against the sun through some 25° or 30" ; the centre of the case 

 Seemed a few inches S. of its former position, as well as I could judge, for the 

 former places of the legs on the floor were not as distinctly marked as in the 



