. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . , ofearthquakes accompanying a change of climate, and the orderof the dry and rainy seasons. If the earth generally acts onthe air only at the moment of the shocks, we can conceivewhy it is so rare that a sensible meteorological change be-comes the pr
. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . , ofearthquakes accompanying a change of climate, and the orderof the dry and rainy seasons. If the earth generally acts onthe air only at the moment of the shocks, we can conceivewhy it is so rare that a sensible meteorological change be-comes the presage of these great revolutions of nature. The hypothesis, according to which, in the earthquakesof Cumana, elastic fluids escape from the surface of the soil,seems confirmed by the observation of the dreadful noise whichis heard during the shocks at the borders of the wells in theplain of Charas. Water and sand are sometimes thrown outtwenty feet high. Similar phenomena have not escaped theobservation of the ancient inhabitants of Greece and AsiaMinor, abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneousrivers. Nature, in its uniform progress, every where sug-gests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes, and themeans by which man, forgetting the measure of his strength,pretends to diminish the effect of the subterraneous EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE.—Page 499. The engraving represents the great earthquake of 1755, in which the city of Lisbon, in Portugal, was entirely destroyed, and 20,000 persons were killed.
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