The Red Cloud chief., 1881-08-04
n.fur.l enough that stupc-

a natural enough that stupe-
3S6ion should be the result. In one OF
the Calabrian earthquakes it was dis
covered that large pieces OF ground had
so changed places that a plantation of
mulberry-trees had been carried into
tho middle of q corn-fieid and there
left, and q field sown with lupines had
been carried out into the middle of n
VINEYARD. The Italian lawsuits which
resulted from this liquefaction of "rear'
property may be easily imagined. Still
stranger, in the earthquake in Rlobamba
i'm 1897, Alexander Won HUMBOLDT found
that the whole furniture o. of one house
had been buried beneath the ruins OF
the next house. 1.-THE upper layer of
the soil, formed of matter not possessing
a great degree of coherencv, had moved
like water m running streams, and we
are compelled to suppose that these
streams flowed first downward, and a.
last rose upward. The motion in the
shocks which were experienced
in Jamaica DULY z, 1922 must have
been not less complicated. Ac ording
to the account of an eyewitness the
whole surface of the ground hal as
sumed the appearance Of running water.
The sea and land appeared TO rush on
one another. and to mingle in the Wild
est confusion. Some persons who. at
the beginning of the calamity, had es-
capped into the streets and to the squares
of the town, to avoid the danger of be-
ing crushed under the ruins of the fall
ing houses. were SO violently tossed
from one side TO the other that MANY of
them re ,eived severe contusionS, and
some were MANNED Others were lift
ed up. hurled through the ar, and
thrown down at a distance from the
place where they were standing. A
few who were in town were carried
away To the scashorc, which was rather
| distant, and then thrown into the sea,
by which accident, however. their lives
were saved" Such a lique'action of
all that is most solid in our world seems
a grim enough rcaliza ion of the prayer
of the prophet: 80 that Thou wOuldSt
rend the heavens, that Thou woulds'
come down, that the mountains night
flow down at Thy presence" for the
mountains do really flow down in earth
I quakes, but the effect of that flow NJ is
transformation such as no other phe-
nom,anSo Of physical life, not ever the
worst darfHSsS Of volcanic erupiions,
ever produceS.>,.,
It /, curious TO ink what snch races
as the T~eutonic wsuld become under
the influence of freqhent earthquakes.
Their ..solidity" of character as II Is
called, largely consists IL n G~onhuehcc
they feel in the samencssc 81 an Nature ;
WAYS; and whether it would survive
that confidence. and outliie the con
stancy on which it was naurlsheu' Is
very doubtful. An English squire lot
instance, whose timber ana crops ht'
changed places with the tImpn, IN IS
tates of his next neightSF'.T I ,
.~:~I---e,ps re~cognizably an English
, squire much longer. An English mcr.
chant, whose stock OF satins or teas had
vanished under the Establishment OfhiS
d. ryal. &ould find the world so very
r mucHout of joint that he himself would
probIbly become an ~unmeaninS phe'
: nomeson. 1t is, indeed, clear that even
, rare PERIODICAL attacks of earthquake
4 would Snder the existence OF a great
: capital AposSiblc. and the character o
an agricultural population quite differ
; cnt. and probably much more capriciou'
e than beiore.-SpectatOr.