...reckoned the permanent elevation and depression of large areas of land, the opening of extensive fissures, great oceanic waves, etc) 191. The earthquake of Chile,...agitated the coast for ,^ a distance of 1,000 miles. JCThe rise upon the coast was from two to four feet : — at the distance of a mile inland it was supposed...

...over which this upraising took place was estimated at one hundred thousand square miles: the ris« upon the coast was from two to four feet; at the distance of a mile inland, it was estimated from five to seven feet. On the 18th of March in the jar 1790, at St Maria di Niscomi, some...

...over which this upraising Cook place was estimated ut one hundred thousand square miles: the rise ufon the coast was from two to four feet; at the distance of a mile inland, it was estimated from five to seven feet. On the 18th of March in the year 1790, at St Maria di Niscomi, some...

...sea was upraised in 1822, the greatest rise being at the distance of about two miles from the shore. The rise upon the coast was from two to four feet ; at the distance of a mile inland it must have been from five or six or seven feet. It has also been conjectured by the same high witnesses...

...former level. The area over which this upraising took place was estimated at one hundred thousand square miles ; the rise upon the coast was from two to four feet; at the distance of a mile inland, it was estimated from five to seven feet. On the 18th of March, in the year 17ЯО, at i>t. Maria di Niscomi,...

...permanent elevation and depression of large areas of land, the opening of extensive fissures, greats oceanic waves, etc. 191. The earthquake of Chile,...alteration of level extended may have been equal to 100,000 square miles. 192. Numerous instances of the depression of land have occurred. During the great...

...;' the supposed area over which the earthquake extended on the land was estimated at 100,000 square miles. ' The rise upon the coast was from two to four feet : — at the distance of a mile inland it must have been from five to six, or seven feet.'* Nearly at the same period, when these stupendous...

...shore * Lyell's Geology, Vol. II, pp. 324-352. to the foot of the Andes, was permanently upheaved. " The rise upon the coast, was from two to four feet ; at the distance of a mile inland, it must have been from five to six feet. The area over which this permanent alteration of level extended,...