Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . bruptly newer than 1812. The sunk country extends along the course of the WhiteWater and its tributaries for a distance ofbetween seventy and eighty miles northand south, and thirty miles ea
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . bruptly newer than 1812. The sunk country extends along the course of the WhiteWater and its tributaries for a distance ofbetween seventy and eighty miles northand south, and thirty miles east and is not, however, confined to the regionwest of the Mississippi; for several exten-sive forest tracts in Tennessee were sub-merged during the shocks of 1811-12,and have ever since formed lakes andswamps. The earthquakes in California, especiallythose which occurred in 1865 and 1868,and both in the month of October, werethe most disastrous in respect to the valueof property destroyed, that of October 21,1868, being particularljr so. At SanFrancisco, the motion was east and west,and several buildings on Pine, Battery,and Sansome streets were thrown down,and a considerable number badly ground settled, which threw the build-ings out of line. The principal damagewas confined to the lower portion of thecity, below Montgomery street, and amongold buildings on the made ground. The. EARTHQUAKE SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO. toward the bayou St. John, and the suddendescent of eight or ten feet throughout anarea four or five miles long, and fifty orsixty broad, was one of the strange resultsof the earthquake. At the lower level areseen cypresses and cotton-wood, and othertrees which delight in wet ground, all custom-house, a brick building erected onpile ground, which was badly shattered inthe earthquake of 1865, had now to beabandoned as unsafe. Business in thelower part of the city was suspended, thestreets were thronged with people, andgreat excitement prevailed. The
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