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EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES. 
Year. Volcano. 
1844 .San Miguel 
1847 .(?) in Nicaragua 
1850 .Telica 
1852 .Momotombo 
1855 .Tacana 
1855 .Fuego 
1856 . “ 
1857 . “ 
1858 .Masaya 
1869 .Izalco 
1870 . “ 
1880 .Ilopango (Lago de) 
1880 ..Fuego 
1883 .Omotepec 
EARTHQUAKES. 
I do not propose to weary my readers with a list of 
the three hundred earthquakes that have been thought 
severe enough to be recorded; but a picture of Central 
America would be unrecognizable without some color of 
the natural disturbances that are inseparably connected 
in the popular mind with this part of the continent. 
In 1541 the capital of the kingdom of Guatemala, now 
Ciudad Vieja, was a young and flourishing city. Founded 
in July, 1524, between the mountains Agua and Fuego, 
in the place called Almolonga (“ water-fountain ”), with 
the proud title of 66 City of Saint James of the Knights of 
Guatemala,” it had grown to a respectable size, in spite of 
numerous misfortunes, to which Juarros devotes an entire 
chapter of his u Coinpendio.” An earthquake in 1526, so 
severe, says Bernal Diaz del Castillo, that men could not 
stand, seems to have frightened the population less than 
did an enormous lion (puma ?) which descended the forest- 
clad slopes of Agua in 1532 and made great havoc, until a 
reward of twenty-five gold dollars and a hundred fanegas 
