1834.] 



A short notice of Earthquakes. 



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neighbourhood of Cochin, and to comply publicly with the arch- 

 bishop's wishes. 



The archdeacon, in the hope that his compliance would prevent 

 the visit with which Menezes threatened his churches, promised to 

 do all that was required of him. He attended on the day appoint- 

 ed, and being seated on a chair prepared for him in the presence 

 of the Governor of Cochin, accompanied by many, both of the cler- 

 gy and laity, a Portuguese priest read to him the confession of Faith in 

 Portuguese, demanding of him if he believed all that was therein con- 

 tained. The archdeacon, who did not understand Portuguese, an- 

 swered in the affirmative without hesitation ; and the same when 

 they asked if he acknowledged the Pope as the head of the 

 ch'Arch and the archbishop of Goa as his superior. The Portuguese 

 (adds La Croze from whom this whole narrative is taken) received 

 this confession with great expressions of joy, but the Jesuits, who 

 were within hearing, judged very differently. Menezes who receiv- 

 ed from Vaipicotta a full account of the whole transaction, resolved, 

 notwithstanding the wars of Malabar and all the other inconveni- 

 ences that oppposed him to visit the churches of St. Thomas with- 

 out delay and to reduce them finally to the obedience of the Holy 

 See. The narrative of that expedition must be reserved for a sub- 

 sequent communication. 



To 



The Editor of Journal 



of the Madras 



Literary Society. 

 IV. — As frequent notices have been made regarding the Earthquake, 

 which occurred on the 26th of last August, the vibrations of which 

 were experienced over an extensive range of country in Bengal, and 

 as several queries have been submitted for consideration as to the 

 cause of earthquakes generally and locally, I have been induced 

 with the view of contributing my mite, in support of the Madras 

 Journal, to offer the following brief outline, in which no profession 

 is made of furnishing any original illustrations, my only object 

 being to arrange various established truths drawn from the latest 

 authentic sources of geological knowledge, in a condensed form 

 adapted to the limits of a periodical publication. 



B. W. WRIGHT, 



Asst, Surg. Sth Regt. N. L 



Vizianagranit 2Sth Octr. 1833,, 



