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TrackThe word track can mean more than one thing.It can mean
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. shock.html">shock succeeded shock, at the interval of a few minutes, no
whether his dearest friends and relations were not perishing
were obliged to keep a constant watch, for thieves
with one hand.html">hand they beat their breasts and cried "Misericordia!"
from the ruins. The thatched roofs fell over the fires, and
ruined, and few had the means of providing food for the day.
Earthquakes alone are sufficient to destroy the prosperity
forces should exert those powers, which most assuredly
would the entire condition of the country be changed!
great manufactories, the beautiful public and private edifices?
by some great earthquake in the dead of the night,
be bankrupt; all papers, records, and accounts would from
the taxes, and failing to maintain its authority, the hand of
large town.html">town famine would go forth, pestilence and death following
distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle
up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible
white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical
been prodigious; for at the Fort a cannon with its carriage,
A schooner was left in the midst of the ruins, 200 yards
which in their retreat carried away a vast wreck of floating
and dry on shore, was carried off, again driven on shore, and
near together were whirled about, and their cables were thrice
feet, they were for some minutes aground. The great wave
had time to run up the hills behind the town; and
boat.html">boat riding securely over the swell, if they could reach it
five years old, ran into a boat, but there was nobody to row
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