The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-03

. VI
Willard Mayes indicate that the entire
existence of Lake Nicaragua has pri-
marily been the result of the volcanic
activities of the region, the strip OF
land that separates it from the Paci-
1ic, and now holds it in it's present po-
stion, being largely an accumulation
of elected volcanic material, most of 1t
very recent, which has been raised to
different positions by land moyemep-9
or displacements Formerly the posi-
ton of the lake was that of bay OF
the ocean. Where land and water
transformations of this kind have been
taking place in a recent past, and as
the result of the operation of the iden-
teal forces which are at work in the
region to-day, it is hardly necessary
to emphasize the possibilities that be-
long to the future. 1T Is interesting to
note in this connection, and as bearing
upon a probable or possible formation
of new land to the westward of the Pa
oific coast of Nicaragua, that the OBJ
serVations of Humboldt, Seebach, Doll
! fuss and Suess clearly show that there
is steady transferrence of the cen
ters of activity, along Well-defined fis-
sural lines, from the east to the west.
Tt is hardly necessary in this place to
| direct attention to the series of very
active volcanoes which are removed
somewhat further (although not re-
motely SOD from the particular region
which centers about the prospective
canal. The following quotation from
the writings of Humboldt, and bearing
! al 40 E'1noo of ho a
Ian plain, may not, however, be with
out its applications: 'The older great
eruptions were those Of 1881, 1885, 1923,
1905, 1910 III, 1882, 1887 and 1893, but it
was not only these eruptions, but also
the destructive earthquakes which ac-
companied them that moved the Span
ish government in the second half of
the last century to quit the second seat
of the city (where the ruins of La An
tigua Guatemala now stand), and COM
pei the inhabitants to settle further to
the north in the new city of Santiago
de Guatemala" The earthquake Of
1918, which led to the abandonment of
the city of Old Guatemala, is stated by
Squier not to have been as violent as
many others that have happened since,
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of 1871 in Costa Rica. The latter near
ly destroyed the city of Cortago, (which
had previously suffered a similar catas-
trophe. May, 1874, was distinguished
throughout Nicaragua by a series of
tervals over a period of several days.
The city of icaragua suffered much
and the waters of the lake were OBJ
served to rise and fall In this con-
nection it is also well to recall the
statement of Oersted that the eruptions
of the violent Costa Rican volcano ra
zu, even as late as 1921 and 1S47 have
been accompanied by destructive earth
quakes, the effects of which have been
felt from Nicaragua to Rivas, the pre-
else outlet of the contemplated canal,
to Panama.
1t is of course, not to be conceived
that the experts who have been con-
suited by the canal construction COM
panies have overlooked the matter of
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes or
failed to consider the extent of damage
that might arise from their action.
The subject is made the basis of a spec
ial report GS9D by Major c. e. Dutton,
u. S. A.. who is well known for his re-
searches into the activities of similar |
,banor,a,o o1seubora and ne , ,a,or+ /
on the earthquakes and volcanoes of |
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