THE

GALLERY

OF

NATURE AND ART;

OR,

A TOUR THROUGH CREATION AND SCIENCE.

BY THE REV. EDWARD POLEHAMPTON,
FELLOW OF KING'S college, CAMBRIDGE;

Assisted by Distinguished Writers in the various Departments of the Work.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME II.

PART I.

GALLERY OF NATURE.

BOOK II.

GEOLOGY continued.

Chap.

XVIII. General History of Earthquakes

XIX. Same subject continued

XX. Extensive Earthquake of the Year 1755

SECT. i. Account of the Earthquake at Lisbon in the same

Page

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ib.

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vi. Same Earthquake as felt at Oporto

vii. Letters from Oporto on the subject

viii. Same Earthquake as felt at Madrid

ix.

as felt at Cadiz

x. Further Description of the same

xi. Same Earthquake felt at Barbary

xii.

ib

39

ib,

40

as felt in the Island of Madeira

Madeir

42

43

44

xiii. Earthquakes at Neufchatel

xiv. Earthquake at Geneva

XV.

xvi.

xvii.

VOL. II.

b

Chap.

Page

XXI. Account of the preceding Earthquake, as felt in

the Lead-Mines, in Derbyshire

46

XXII. Extraordinary Agitation of the Waters in

various parts, accompanying the preceding

Earthquake

SECT. i. At Portsmouth, Hants

ii. In Sussex and Surrey

iii. At Cobham

iv. At Medhurst

v. At Cranbrook

vi. About Tunbridge

vii. In the River Thames, near Rotherhithe

viii. In Peerless Pool, Old Street, London

ix. At Rochford

x. In Berkshire, near Reading

xi. At Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire

xii. In Devon and Cornwall

xiii. On the Cornish Coast

xiv. At Toplitz, in Bohemia

xv. At the Hague

xvi. At Harlem

XXIII. Earthquake at Messina and the adjoining

47

ib.

48

50

ib.

51

ib.

ib.

ib.

52

53

ib.

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55

57

58

ib.

Country, and Destruction of the City in 1783 59

XXIV. Earthquake in Calabria in the Year 1783

XXV. Caverns, Grottos, and other Natural Excava-

XXVI. Mosses, Moors, Bogs, and the production of

Peat

SECT. i. Introductory Remarks

118

ib.