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MOST IMPRESSIVE SINGLE RUIN OF AMERICA.

THE WORLD'S WEAK SPOTS.

WHERE, EARTHQUAKES HAVE THEIR ORIGIN,

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Though few details have, as yet reached Great Britain, it is clear that the recent disturbance in Chile must be reckoned as A bare five days from New York stands one of the world's greatest earthquakes, the most massive, probably the most im-writes Charles Davision,, Sc.D. In an pressive, single ruin in America, says a writer in an American journal. One might go farther and say that there are few mun-

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built structures in Europe that can equal clocks at Buenos Aires, about 900 miles it in majesty, and in the extraordinary across the continent, the area disturbed difficultica overcome in its "construction. by the earthquake must have far exceeded Only the pyramids of Egypt can compare 2 million square miles and have closely with this gigantic monument to the strength | approached that affeated by the destruc and perseverance of man and the pyramids |tive Chinese earthquake of nearly two are bulls down ou, the floor of the earth yours ago, probably the most extensive instead of being borne aloft to "the top of a

known to us. " mountain. It is curicus, jet symbolical, of In the study of nu earthquake, great or our ignorance of the neighbours of our own small, the main point to be determined sa hemisphere, that while most Americans the position of its origin, "This will be Oz SATURDAY, 10th. know of far less remarkable structures indefinitely known as soon as the records Europe, not one in a hundred of us had from several distant observatories can be over hourd of the great Haitian citadel of measured and compared, Christophe.

We caught, our first view of it from the Cape." The January day had broken in a food of tropical sunshine, which brought out every crack and wrinkle of the long mountain ranga cutting ita ragged outline in the Haitian sky to the south-ward of the city. On the top of its highest peak, called the Bishop'e Bonnet," stood forth a square cut summit, which only the previously informed could have believed was the work of man. Twenty-five miles away it looked like an enormous back in the mounthin itself, a curious natural formation which man could never have imitated except on a tiny scale. It is a long-standing joke in Cape Haitian to listen in all solemnity to newcomers laughing to scora assertions of the residents that this distant mountain summit was an untenanted palace.

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such it was, is wholly uninhabitable to-day Christophe's palace of Sans Souci, for yet there is still enough of it standing to indicate it was once one of the most ornate and commodious structures in the western hemispher. Two pairs of mammoth gate- posta, aquare in form, and nearly twenty feet high, guard the loser yard platform, bounded by a heavy stone wall. On the inside these are hollowed out into unexpected sentry boxes, for Christophe

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a strong believer in many guards Higher up, sustained by a still stronger wall, is another grassy platform, from which stairway as broad and elaborate as any trodden by European sovereigns, likewise to a balustraded entrance court, also flanked by sentry bozes. Crumbling walls in which many

small bushes have found a foothol tower high aloft above this, to where they are broker off into jagged irregularity. The palace was evidently five stories high, built of native brick and pister, and the architecture" is still impressive, despite its dilapidated condition, and for all its African-minded ostentation. The roof has completely given way, and is the vast halls of the lower Lower grow wild orange's sed tropical bushes. Those higher "ap, of which only the edges of the floors and walls rantair, are said to have included- a great ballroom, and an immense billiards ball, separate ecites for the emperor and his black consort, and apartments for the immediate royal family,

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In the meantime we have to veely on On HONDAY, 18th, somewhat scanty data, on our knowledge of the area of greatest damage, on the fact that the shock, as in so many other Peruvian and Chilon earthquakes, was followed soon after by a series of des On TUESDAY, 13th tructive sca-waves.

POTEST REGIONS,

The next point of significance. is that the damage caused by the earthquake was most serious along a portion of the coast about 200 miles in length, reaching from Cequimbo northwards to Copiapo, the town that suffered most of all being Vallenar, about half-way between these places. It is therefore probable that the origin lay some distance out at sea and in the neighbourhood of a place directly "pposite to Vallenar.

Along the margins of the Pacific Ocean ara seibe of the most potent earthquake regions in the world. Indeed, viewed un a large scale, the ocean seans to be almost

agirdled by these regions,

of Japan, and, farther south, another There is our large one-to the east which includes the Philippine Islands and the Malay Archipelago. On the other side of the ocean lies a third zone beginning in Alaska and extending south-eastwards. of San Francisco, covers Central America, and ends to the south of Columbia; while the fifth elings to the western coast of South America, and to it belong the many earthquakes which in times paat have ravaged the coasts of Chile and

A fourth reaches from a little North

Peru.

Out of every ten world-shaking earth- quakes seven originate in the Pacific which are exactly ten times a9 productive in great shocks as the corres pending regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

Tegionly,

The Pacific Oceang unlike the Atlantic, is also remarkable in possessing narrow troughs of immense depth. Of c east coast of Japan dies the Tuscaroora Deep. Its greatest depth is 5 miles, and below its western slope originate many. of the greatest of Japanese earthquakes.

The deepest of all, of the island of Guam, is the Challenger Deep, which sinks rearly 6 miles below the sea level.

SUBMARINE REGIONS.

The coasts of Chile and Peru are bordered by a series of these troughs-the Krummel Deep (4 miles) off Arequipa, the Bartholomew Deep (4 miles) off. Africa, the Richards Deep (4 milos) off Copiapo, and the Haeckel-Deep (3) miles) off Valparaiso and Santiago, It is along the sloping sides of these troughs that the most destructive Peruvian and Chilean earthquakes originate, and the centre of the recent shock will probably' be found not far distant from the southern end of the Richards Deep.

Before this mammoth structure tha -memory of Sans Souci sinks into insigni- ficance. As the latter is ornate and cheer- ful in architecture, the citadel is sayago in its adorned masculine strength. The mighty stone walls, twenty feet thick in many cases, are square cut and formidable. in their great unbroken surfaces. The northern sice is red with fungus, the rest merely weather dulled. Even the cANDON of today would find them worthy ad Time, which has wrought such havoc on the palace at the mountain's foot, has scarcely made an impressioù on the exterior of this cyclopean structure, and oven within only the wooden portions have given way. Great iron-studded doors,

In the shelving slopes of the Pacific groaning on their mammoth hinges, give deeps it would seem that we have but an admittance to an endless labyrinth of earlier stage of a similar structure, and gloomy chambere, dungeon-like in every that in the earthquakes of Chile and Peru, respect but their astonishing size. "Cannon we have from time to time the movementa of the largest makes known when the

versaries.

What the connection between the occurrence of earthquakes and a steeply. sloping surface may be is less clear than the fict that such & connection does exist, Most of cur great earthquake regions are partly or entirely submarine. But there is one that lies or land, ex- tending from Italy across the Balkan Peninsala to the Himalayas, in which two out of every ten world-shaking earthquakes originate.

fortress was constructed, are to be found that will culminate in the formation of

A new series of mountain ranges. everywhere, some of them still pointing dizzily out of their embrasures, stretching in row after row of superimposed batteries, others lying where he rotting of their heavy wooden supports bas left them.

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This device, of which M. Gallict and quainted. A great deal could be done to facilitate trade by the simplification of Bory are the inventors, is a brake mach of the official routine...

The problem of an efficient commercial of being thrust back on its carriage, will intelligence service. all over the Empire be kept in position by a mechanism which is also important, and each part of the will oppose to its backward impetus one Empire should be kept informed of the of equal intensity in the reverse direction. requirements of others and also the goods The device work in such a way that they can supply. A review of their re Bourca, says the Times, makes it clear the more powerful the gun the lens the that every commodity is produced some recoil. The gases generated by the ex- where within the Empire, but it needs a plosion of the charge are no released that practical knowledge of commerce possess the finah is eliminated and, the report ed by businessmen to indicate how the deadened, Various Governments can best stimulato their neo in proference to foreign sup-

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