. 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 . 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 SAND STORM OR SAND FLOOD IN THE DESERTS OF ARABIA,—Page
. 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 . 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 SAND STORM OR SAND FLOOD IN THE DESERTS OF ARABIA,—Page these terrible whirlwinds of Band, whole caravans are Bometimes overwhelmed and destroyed. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 501 What a great Roman naturalist has said of the utility of wellsand caverns, is repeated in the New World by the most igno-rant Indians of Quito, when they shew travellers the guaicos,or crevices of Pichincha. The subterraneous noise, so frequent during earthquakes,is generally not in the ratio of the strength of the Cumana it constantly precedes them ; while at Quito, andlately at Caraccas, and in the Westlndia Islands,a noise likethedischarge of a battery was heard a long time after the shockshad ceased. A third kind of phenomenon, the most remark-able of the whole, is the rolling of those subterraneous thun-ders, which last several months, without being accompaniedby the least oscillating motion of the ground. * In every country subject to earthquakes, the point where(probably by a disposition o
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