I was therefore very glad when morning came.

Most of the inhabitants had not been to bed at all, and some had stayed out of doors all night.

For the next two days and nights shocks still continued at short intervals, and several times a day for a week, showing that there was some very extensive disturbance beneath our portion of the earth's crust.

How vast the forces at work really are can only be properly appreciated when, after feeling their effects, we look abroad over the wide expanse of hill and valley, plain and mountain, and thus realize in a slight degree the immense mass of matter heaved and shaken.

The sensation produced by an earthquake is never to be forgotten.