Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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NIAGARA RIVER UNWATEKKl) ABOVE THE FALLS BY THE ONTARIO POWER COMPANYS HUGE WING-DAM. (Eminent geologists of Europe and America came to study the river-bed, temporarily dried up for the power companys construction purposes.)
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MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN REGIONS. (Heavy black shadings indicate active volcanic formations. Light shadings indicate regions of seismic disturbanceswithout active volcanoes. Arrows point to places where greatest disasters have occurred.) VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES IN THECARIBBEAN REGIONS. BY FRANCIS C. NICHOLAS, PH.D. IN glancing over numerous periodicals, kindremembrances from friends in SpanishAmerica during tlie past few weeks,-I was for-cibly impressed by the reports of an unusualnumber of seismic disturbances. Evidently atremor had pulsated over all the regions aboutthe Caribbean Sea, and, subsiding, had this timeleft Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Vene-zuela, and the West Indies unharmed. Thenewspapers, however, told of forebodings, andwell might the people feel alaimed, for the rec-ords of disasters in the Caribbean reuions are ap-palling, and recent occurrences in Mailinique canstill send a thrill of sympathetic dread throxighsensitive nerves. Awful as that catastrophewas, it i

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