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p. Secondly , Thofe places that are in the neigh- 
bourhood of burning mountains, ..are always 
fubjedt to frequent earthquakes ; and the erup- 
tions of thofe mountains, when violent, are ge- 
nerally attended with them. 
10. Afia Minor and Conftantinople may be looked 
upon as in the neighbourhood of Santerini. The 
countries alfo about * * /Etna, Vefuvius, mount Hascla, 
&c. afford us fufficient proofs to the fame purpofe. 
But, of all the places in the known world, I fuppofe, 
no countries are fo fubjedt to earthquakes, as -f* Peru, 
Chili, and all the weftern parts of South America ; 
nor is there any country in the known world fo full 
of volcanos : for, throughout all that long range 
of mountains, known by the name of the Andes, 
from 4y degrees fouth latitude, to feveral degrees 
north of the line, as alfo throughout all Mexico, 
being about 5 coo miles in extent, there is a con^ 
tinned chain of them £. 
11. ’Thirdly , The motion of the earth in earth- 
quakes is partly tremulous, and partly propa- 
gated by waves, which fucceed one another 
iometimes at larger and fometimes at fmaller 
where many more examples, to the fame purpofe, are to be met 
with. See alfo A 4 e moires fur les tremblemens de Terre ; in which 
are mentioned above 130 repetitions of earthquakes, that have 
happened, within the compafs of 960 yeais, in Switzetland. 
* See many infiances of this in vol. ii. of Lowthorp’s Abr. of 
the Philof. Tranf. 
f Monf. Bouguer fays, that fcarce a week pafies without earth- 
quakes in fome part of Peru. See Hiflr. of Earthq, p. 205. 
t See the Maps of thefe countries, Condamine’s Voyage down 
the Maranon, Axofia’s Nat. Hift. of the Indies, &c, 
Vol, LI. 4E diftances; 
