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ceous substratum became soaked, so that a great 
part of it was reduced to a fluid paste. Strange 
alterations in the outline of the ground were the con- 
sequence, as the soil toa great depth was moulded 
into any form. The rivers of the neighbouring hills 
were precipitated into the hollow, and the small river 
of Caridi was entirely concealed:for many days : and 
when at length it reappeared ; it had shaped for itself 
an entirely new channel (Sir Ch. Lyell’s Principles 
of Geology, ch. xvi. book II.) The plain of Saint 
Catherine’s in the oecurrences-of three hundred and 
fifty years present very similar facts to these inci- 
dents of the river plain of Soriano. 
There are two palms, pheenix dactiléfera, near 
the walls of Fort Charles. They are, apparently 
from their growth, of an age anterior to the earth- 
quake. They are probably of a date co-eval with 
the settlement of the Spaniards. The numerous. 
beautiful date-palms we see in Kingston: and the 
plain of Liguanea are certainly Spanish. 


No one who has observed a boiled fish upon the 
tablecan have passed unremarked, the spinal column, 
with its upward and downward processes, and the 
four transverse strips of flesh, adjusted alternately in 
different directions with strong semi-transparent ten- 
dons between. ‘The spinous processes, proceeding 
from the vertebree upward, support the dorsal fins, 
whilst the transverse processes-downward with curv» 
ed bones, encircle partially the bulk of the body.— 
Without being ribs these latter resemble ribs. Those 
