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Earth-quakes are very frequent also in other parts of New 
Zealand, and especially on the volcanic line between Tongariro 
and White Island, where, — on Lake Tarawera, • — not a single 
month passes without at least one slight shock. Upon South Is- 
land Dusky Lay, according to older accounts, seems to have been 
visited by numerous earth-quakes in 1826 and 1827 ; and 80 miles 
North of it a little bay named “jail”, formerly much frequented by 
seal-hunters on account of the safe shelter it affords, is said to have 
been laid perfectly dry by an earth-quake. 1 
i I am indebted to Mr. Triphook in Port Napier for the following list of earth- 
quakes from 1856 — 1858: 
Number 
Year. 
Date. 
Time. 
of Shocks 
Place. 
Remarks. 
1856. 
Dec. 11. 
6 45 a. 
III. 
2 
Wellington. 
Wind S. W. 
d 13. 
8 45 p. 
m. 
1 
Hutt Valley near 
Wellington. 
1857. 
Feb. 21. 
3 20 p. 
in. 
1 
Wellington. 
Undulatory motion. 
Mar. 18. 
5 15 p. 
rn. 
1 
Pourua Harbour. 
Apr. 9. 
10 0 a. 
in . 
2 
Wellington. 
Undid, motion. 
July 30. 
12 55 a. 
rn. 
2 
11 
Violent Vertical Shock. 
Aug. 23. 
9 50 a. 
m. 
1 
Fine calm day. 
Sept. 6. 
1 20 a. 
in. 
1 
11 
Fine calm day. 
„ 27. 
12 25 a. 
rn . 
1 
11 
Wet day. 
Oct. 8. 
8 10. a. 
m. 
2 
n 
Wind S. W. rainy and cold. 
Dec. 27. 
1 20 a. 
m. 
1 
Port Napier. 
Changeable weather. 
1858. 
Jan. 6. 
4 15 a. 
m. 
1 
ii ii 
Apr. 16. 
2 0 a. 
m. 
1 
ii ii 
Showers of rain. 
„ 18. 
1 0 a. 
m. 
1 
ii ii 
Showers of rain. 
July 20. 
1 0 a. 
m. 
1 
ii ii 
Fine weather. 
Aug. 2. 
2 0 p. 
m. 
1 
ii ii 
Fine weather. Swelling sea. 
Oct. 23. 
6 10 p. 
in. 
1 
ii ii 
Wind S. E. Swelling sea. 
Vi bra live motion. 
1859. 
July 1. 
7 0 a. 
in. 
1 
11 n 
Showers. 
1863. Feb. 23. an earth-quake was felt in New Zealand (Hawkes Bay) which des- 
troyed several houses and left various crevices in the soil. 
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