Their bodies are not very muscular. They rarely eat meat once a week, and never oftener, and then only the hard dry charqui. This appears to me a wonderful instance of the amount of labour which habit, for it can be nothing else, will enable a man to endure. Joseph, saying it was a pity the lady should not have a husband. The town is remarkable for nothing but its extreme quietness. It is said to contain from 6000 to 8000 inhabitants. On the morning of the 17th it rained lightly, the first time this year, for about five hours. It was interesting to watch the effect of this trifling amount of moisture. Before this shower every part of the surface was bare as on a high road. Some of the women afterwards were crying with terror, and one gentleman said he should not be able to sleep all night, or if he did, it would only be to dream of falling houses. The whole party escaped. The danger in an earthquake is not from the time lost in opening the door, but from the chance of its becoming jammed by the movement of the walls. It is impossible to be much surprised at the fear which natives and old residents, though some of them known to be men of great command of mind, so generally experience during earthquakes. I think, however, this excess of panic may be partly attributed to a want of habit in governing their fear, as it is not a feeling they are ashamed of. Indeed, the natives do not like to see a person indifferent. Lyell to have been formed by the sea, during the gradual rising of the land. They have undoubtedly been formed by the denuding power of the sea, during long periods of rest in the gradual elevation of the continent. These modern beds rest on an ancient tertiary formation containing shells, apparently all extinct. I believe the explanation is not difficult, and that it is perhaps applicable to nearly analogous facts observed in other quarters of the world.