Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume V1
Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume V1
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000 persons perished by the fall of these edifice*. Seo Daubeney On I'u'canoe*. P. -t 14-5 17. ] 7V EARTHQUAKES. 211 the sea roue to an elevation of sixty-four feet, while in the An- tilles, where the tide usually rises only from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches, it suddenly rose above twenty feet, the water being of an inky blackness. It has been computed that on the 1st of November, 1755, a portion of the Earth's sur- face, four times greater than that of Europe, was simultane- ously shaken.... As yet there is no manifestation offeree known to us. Including even the murderous inventions of our own race, by which a greater number of people have been killed in the short space of a few minutes : sixty thousand were de- stroyed in Sicily in 1693, from thirty to forty thousand in the earthquake of Riobamba in 1797, and probably five times as many in Asia Minor and Syria, under Tiberius and Justinian the elder, about the years 19 and 526.
There are instances in which the earth has been shaken for many successive days in the chain of the Andes in South America, but I am only acquainted with the following cases in which shocks that have been felt almost every hour for months together have occurred far from any volcano, as, for instance, on the eastern declivity of the Alpine chain of Mount Cenis, at Fenestrelles and Pignerol, from April, 1808 ; be- tween New Madrid and Little Prairie, * north of Cincinnati, in the United States of America, in December, 1811, as well as through the whole winter of 1812 ; and in the Pachalik of Aleppo, in the months of August and September, 1822.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
000 persons perished by the fall of these edifice*. Seo Daubeney On I'u'canoe*. P. -t 14-5 17. ] 7V EARTHQUAKES. 211 the sea roue to an elevation of sixty-four feet, while in the An- tilles, where the tide usually rises only from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches, it suddenly rose above twenty feet, the water being of an inky blackness. It has been computed that on the 1st of November, 1755, a portion of the Earth's sur- face, four times greater than that of Europe, was simultane- ously shaken.... As yet there is no manifestation offeree known to us. Including even the murderous inventions of our own race, by which a greater number of people have been killed in the short space of a few minutes : sixty thousand were de- stroyed in Sicily in 1693, from thirty to forty thousand in the earthquake of Riobamba in 1797, and probably five times as many in Asia Minor and Syria, under Tiberius and Justinian the elder, about the years 19 and 526.
There are instances in which the earth has been shaken for many successive days in the chain of the Andes in South America, but I am only acquainted with the following cases in which shocks that have been felt almost every hour for months together have occurred far from any volcano, as, for instance, on the eastern declivity of the Alpine chain of Mount Cenis, at Fenestrelles and Pignerol, from April, 1808 ; be- tween New Madrid and Little Prairie, * north of Cincinnati, in the United States of America, in December, 1811, as well as through the whole winter of 1812 ; and in the Pachalik of Aleppo, in the months of August and September, 1822.
What to read after Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume V1?
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