Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-18

flies, and tour excellent DuSleS. HeSc men
say. thai there was common understanding
among the troops throughout the country, q
that other rsings were expected at the same
time that the only difficulties they are
likely to meet, arc the great number of Ca
taIans, Biscayans, and other merchants, who
are very active constituencies and ready to
buy or sell any thing but who are abhor-
red by the troops.
These troops will embark in few days to
ioin Montilla's corps, to carry on the expos
sulat,on with The Cartbagenians and Santa
Martha
From the Journal Of Science, for Jnly,
1920.
ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE
ISLAND OF saBRINA,
OFF THE ISLAND OF ST. MICHAEL.
On Thursday morning, the 18th Of
June, 1911, at about half past one o.
clock. strong shock Of an Earthquake
was felt at the city of Ponta DeIgada,
and for nearly eight hours the shock
continued with more or less violence,
with intervals Of from fifteen co twenty
minutes between each shock, and more
particularly at the west end of the Island
where number of cottages were thrown
down, and other more substantial bald
ings were considerably Injured. On
FRIDAY morning a sub marine volcano
burst forth about mile from the shore,
to the N. n. W. Q w. of the Pico
das Camarinhas, which threw up stones
and saud to a considerable height; but
it subsidized in til, afternoon of the same
day. On Saturday the 18th, the vol
cauo burst forth again in the same
place, though not with so much VIC.
lencc the shocks Of fhe earthquake
were also more mild, but considerable
damage had already been done in the
districts of GiEetes, Varzca, and Nor
teyros. On Sunday morning early, ac-
companied by some friends, | rode to
west end Of the island to observe this
phenomenon. and was mach gratified at
seeing one of the most awful and sub
lime spectacles that nature can present
to human observation. took my sta
ton on the brink of precipice, i'm
pending over the sea shore, at the uear-
est possible distance from the volcano,
which WAS raging with lmmense fury,
throwing up stones and sand to a height
Of upwards of a thousand feet above the
level of the sea, attended with hollow
laundering noise, like distant came
made, and accompanied with smart
shocks of earthquakes. The mephtic
vapo-sr was at times so strong. as to al
feet the breathing, even to danger OF
suforation, as the wind blew direct on
shore from the N. N. W.-The sea
Was agitated around the volcano, to
considerable distance, and boiling like
an immense cauldron, the diameter of
which appeared to be about 500 feet
the stones (snme of which we're appa.
rentIy above ton weight being thrown
W, nearly perpendicular, several hun
drcd yards. fell with a tremendous
noise in every direction about the vol.
o., and kept The sea in continual
foam. The appearance Of the clouds,
rising to spiral form, and spreading
Sc, eral leagues 10 the southWard at
t acted particular uoticc, from the wa
ter spouts whcb rmed from the black
dense clouds, and drew up the water in
a variety of dircctions---at one time
counted eleven water spouts in full &C
lion; occasionally the clouds burst over
US with light rain, charged with ashes
and small scor'a, drawn up from the
volcano; tie sui pher was so strong as
greatly to inComnlode the inhabitants
of ponta Dclgada, a distance Of nearly
twenty miles. On Tuesday, the 18th
of June, returned to the same spat,
accompanied by capt. Tillard, of his
,Hajesty's ship SabrIna, MIR. Nocholes,
purser of that ship, and a Portuguese
gentleman, and OH our arrival at half
past ten, we discovered the mouth of
crater, several feet above the surface Of
the sea the quantity of sand and ash
es thrown up from the centre of the era
ter, formed an embankment as it fell,
which kept out the sea, except in one
place, where an embonchare of about
thirty feet wide was disceinible; the sea
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