RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Place, Account of the earthquake in Chile. CUL-DAR39.197. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1
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F. Place. 1824. Account of the earthquake in Chili, in November, 1822, from observations made by several Englishmen residing in that country. Quarterly Journal of Science 17, pp. 38-46.
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Quarterly Journal of Science 1824 "account of Earthquake in Chile" by F. Place Esqr
p 42 "The rise on the coast is from 2 to 4 ft; at the distance of a mile inland, the rise must have been from 5 to 6 ft or 7 ft; for in the cut from the tail water-course of a mill, at the distance of about a mile from the sea, a fall of 14 inches has been gained in little more than 100 yards."
[in margin:] There is a reference to this in this chapter.
[South America, p. 44: "There is reason to believe,† from the effects produced on the water-course of a mill during the earthquake of 1822 in Chile, that the upheaval one mile inland was nearly double, namely, between five and seven feet, to what it was on the Pacific.
† Mr. Place in the Quarterly Journal of Science, 1824, vol. xvii. p. 42."]
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