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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
that a chasm opened and closed again. Yet

in adopting this latter hypothesis, we must

suppose that the upper part of the chasm, to

the depth of one hundred fathoms, remained

open after the shock. According to the

observations made at Lisbon in 1837 by Mr.

Sharpe, the destroying effects of this

earthquake were confined to the tertiary

strata, and were most violent on the blue clay,

on which the lower part of the city is

constructed. Not a building, he says, on the

secondary limestone or the basalt was

injured.

“The great area over which this Lisbon

earthquake extended is very remarkable. The

movement was most violent in Spain,

Portugal, and the north of Africa; but nearly

the whole of Europe, and even the West