ML18108A643
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 01/13/1977 |
| From: | Rasmussen G - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Anders W NRC/Chairman |
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January 13, 1977 1609 S.K. Fourth Street Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Milliam C. Anders, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission llashington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Anders:
Please send me the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-sion~s Hearing on the alternative Martin site suggested by Dr. Karl Z. Morgan on January ll, 1977 at Fort Lauderd'ale, Florida, under Chairman Luton.
I was unab1e to attend the fina1 half of the hearing, leaving at the noon recess because of my strict cancer-cure diet, for lunch. at home ~
Dr. Karl Z. Morgan stated that the vivid yellow precipitate of the radioactively contaminated fish ( photograph shown him and sent your m d other agencies of the United States
) was due to the presence of uranium oxide. Marie Curie's research indicated that radium ionized other elements resulting in either a white, pink, but "most often a vivid yello~ precipitate" in her re<<
searches'ry Morgan recommended that Martin be chosen for the Number 2 Hutchinson Island nuclear 'reactor rather than another at Hutchin<<
son island, due to the action of CUAHE led by Valerie Prime, also a
CARP member of which I am Director. Unfortunately Silver
- Springs, noted and beautiful nationally known limestone spring, the largest in Florida and the United States, is near Martin, and only five and one>>half mil'es from Ocala. Nith the lowering prices in solar panels becoming available, and the new research, we of Citizens Against Radioactive Pollution urge that a Solar insta11ation or Farm be constructed there to protect the springs and water supply of Tlorida, wi ose state aquifer"is near Orlando>>
>later from the hot cores of nuclear reactor, used in cooling them, s
becomes radioactive, and any marine or plant life becomes contam-
- inated, and when consumed by humans, causes diseases such as can-
- cer, leukemia, chromosome damage leading to hereAary defects and even. mongolism.
Many purchase spring water from Florida springs for purity, and any nuclear facility in the region would contaminate the water supply.
1 recognize the extreme dangers which even today some Florida Power and Light people contend that a nuclear reactor is the safest place to be" during a hurricane.
They are mong,'or most did not endure the 1926 hurricane whose water's were up to the second floor up to a mile inland in Port Lauderdale'n 18/3, Por't Leon, llakuihla County's first county seat, was inundated and destroyed by a storm which arose in the Gulf of Mexico.
ln Tennessee along the Mississippi fault, land was lowered 15-20 feet, the earthquake of 1811-181P destroying C
uthersMlle by in-
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'linter, 1976<<1977 SOLAR ENERGY ISSUE sVh. ~
As the great dangers of nuclear power and weapons testing become more 'obvious, apparent, and expensive, it is necessary to be formed on Solar Energy and alternative forms of power."':,'ith the vast powerhouse of the sun's rays falling upon the earth yearly, we should utilize God's gift to mankind, and develop this safe form of ene. gy which willultiaately be almost free ~ The expense today is in the cost of solar cells, panels, and solar homes.
8
-SO<MR LNHBVZ is of various types; our present use
~ of it in Florida lags behind Colorado and other states, for we still are using on-ly that of water heating in most instances.
The type solar energy which most citizens want, is photovoltaicwhich converts light in-to electricity without moving parts.
This is the principal of the Solar Fan Cube shown CARP members. Light falls upon Solar cells made of silicone or some synthetic treated substance which creates an electrical field; by electrodes in the silicon, the energy created is wired and put to use, either in turning the fan or a large turbine. This is PHOTOVOLTAIC Solar energy.
%nother type is THER";IAL solar energy; the sun's rays are focused on mirrors, the heat of which heats great amounts of water produc-ing steam for turning turbogenerators
~
One problem existing for all Solar Energy is storage, and in the case of individual home-owners'olar Panels
( Photovoltaic ), the right of access to the sun without tall buildings or neighbors~
shade blockins this access'h~KfAL
-NERGY can be stored Ql large volumes of liquid metal or molten.salts and later extracted;'r by the use of solar energy to obtain hydrogen, it would thon be stored a>a a Pass or solid and later used aa fuel Also, solar enerpy cauld be
@~ed to poMer pumps-which filldana for hydro-elect ic power plants
~ !~ost practical solution at the present time, however, is the STORAGE BATTERY, though costs are at present.very. great.
( sulphur
) and the LEAD ACID battery
( con<<
vent ional ), have als o both been use d.
Other modes
~ of storage include compressed air storage and huge sup-erconducting magnets which would store energy in powerful ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CURRENTS and used later.
The FLYAHEEL which could be turned very rapidly in excessive
- sunshine, could store energy, then used later when there is no sunshineo Individuals may at the present time install solar panels, build solar homes
( Rooftops with panels~
sloping walls, sliding covers to cover water storage= tanks when coolness is wanted, exposed to sun's rays when heat is wanted
)~
and use conventional solar water heating Dr. Daniel >lolls of the University of Miami~s Physics Department, states that-a pane1 about
. one-.third the area of ones>s home will provide all'the electricity for home needs.
This type panel is the PHOTOVOLTAIC~ '.
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."Mint6r, 3.976-77 CA.R P, 2.
On Ja1y 30, our House of Representatives passed g
the Rin ham dm t t the >iUW>>AR:tJZL ASSUP>NCE ACT 170-166; five days 1 t it reversed itself, preventing the uran a er ex ense in min, ba>>ou o
il-t f federal funds. With the outrageous xp e turnin to d th DANG~ iQiVMi many around the nation are g
SOLAR BiERGYg there are over 200 homes in the.U.
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.U S.
now usin solar energy, numbers of commercial buildings, and the Air Force wi13. Install solar heating and cooling systems on two Air Force Base shopping centers next year SOLAR ZNrRGY is also the best type energy source in isolated areas, and is the only in space
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Most solar panels were developed for SPACE, and as TERRESTRIAL needs become.greater, costs will go down with development and demand MEXICO began operation of a TEKRBIAL CQIVlEBSION SYSTEM f'OLAR energy in January,
- 1976, and an entire city in TEXAS voted forsolar energy, and employed a firm in Reno, Nevada o
design its SOLAR ENRGY PLANT.
OREGON and COLORADO already have laws which protect the individ-ual property and hpneowners~
rights of access to the sun~
and the AFRICAÃ BAR ASSOCIATION at Chicago Progosed laws which would require STATE LMISLATUPM~ to require municipalities to consider SQ?AR ZKRGY SYSTZ6 in Building and Zoning Codes.
( Environment,
- Juno, 1976
).XAPZHOSIS XAVZHQSIS is the yellow discoloration in cancerous tumors.
- >>R~ CURI=, in. fractionating radioactive substances, wrote that the precjpitates are saaetimes white or pirl., but that most often they were a VIVID YELT.Vd. Two out of six fish
( King i'.ackeral
)
which we purchased at the PQHPANO BEACH YACHT BASIN '~ere found to be radioactively contaminated; their precipitates
( 2 ounces of water for one, and $ Cup of water for the second ), were a VIVID YELLOW My statement, proof'nd photographs have been sent to of-ficials, scientists, and concerned persons'he fish were pur-chased from January, 1976 through to August, 1976't is well to avoid eating any f'ood which has a vivid yellow precipitation~
foreign'o'g6
'shade wh'ich it should" be.'n uncontaminated fish will:behave an almost clear to light beige precipitate or simmering water.
( stock
) ~
Besides RADIOACTIVE WASTE QISPOSAL in the OCEAN, hundreds pf nulcear powered submarines armed with nuclear weapons now circle the earth.
(
OCEANS, May-June, 1976 Pages 60-65 ~ ) The FORT LAUDERDALE (
BROCARD COUNTY ) Library~s bound editions of SCIENCE, omits the June 28, 1957 edition with E.C ~ Anderson~+ article, "Radioactivity of'eople and Foods",
Just as CONSUiKRS UNION fail to complete a needed re-port on the radioactivitp of. foods after receiving an AEC. grant.
See CONSUMER REPORTS,
- October, 1961 FALLOUT IN FOOD McKINLEYC.
OLSON~S book, "UNACCEPTABLE RISK" The Nuclear Power Industry Is a must for regdingg OLSON quotes Edward A. Martell who states that cancer Is a zesult of complex metabolism which causes chromosomal structural alterations g continuously the altered cells with the most active mitotic rate take over; they grow more rapid-ly (
One can. see, because of radiation and radioactive substances or food ingested
) than the healthy cells, and these more hi~h1y radiated cells destroy the others' Page
- 11U, OLSON, op. cd,J ~
'inter, 1976>>77 C.A.H. P.
Even as far back as
- 1952, the PARRY COMMISSION reported, "It is time for aggressive research in the field of solar energy"
( Paley Commission Report to President
- Truman, 1952 ). CFITICAL IRSS quoted that sun-energy falling upon the U.S. annua3.1y, was 1500 times the Naiion~s energy consumption in 1950. This report went unheeded.
Isaac Asimov stated in a Union of Concerned Scientists report, "Solar cells, working at only lP,; efficiency, should require only 1/250 of the world', desert area to supply the present enerGy needs of the worl<1".
C At the present time, since AEC is now =~A, EMA~s Sandia Labora-tory is working on solar col.l e "X'iciency
( Albuquerque, lt V
)
As early as l903, Rev C.H. Pope stated that captains of'ndustry should study and develop the SOLA-.. ENGINE.
( Solar Heat, It~s Practical Applications, 1903 ).
E".J:A has now granted
";75,000 to the PAIK'ORPORATION of Santa Mon-ica, California "to study the posse"le environmental impacts of heat released into the air at future 'power paxks'hich wou3d cost likely include those run by SOLAR '"WFXJY, primaxily from cooling towers and ponds.
( Solar oner~ Digest
) ~
How ironic that A=C
( now EHDA
) did not accurate3.y measure and
. prevent the burial of radioactive waste in deep pits covered only by screens
( At Oak Ridge; RADIATION HYGIENE HANDBOOK'anson Blatz, Ilc6raw-Hill, 1959, page Zl-hip, also see page 2I.-39
( Section
- 23. ),
Ocean Disposal as Liquid or Solid
).
Undoubtedly alerted that Strontium decomposes
- watex, E..DA is hoped to project the development of SQLA: Eif"HGY. PHOTOVOLTAIC Electric Power Systems together with the ~eneratinZ systems of the U S electric utility industry under a:r339,QOO cont act with ttn ~C-T:.IC PCi"lf:Z~HCH DSTXTUT", is G- '
s:aMost p oJect Vf~+
- iarsh is manager of their Photovoltaic system Big indistry could have developed SOLAF. PO'WH in the 1950~s-but the AEC was pushing atomic power, and. gave the utility industry "bonuses" to build nuclear reactors.
How tragic that radioactive contamination reached.
the extent before SOLAP. powex gained a fol3.ow-ing. Even today largest funds in government have been for nuclear energy; MRITE YOUR PEPRESENTAVIVZS and OF1"ICIALSL You will help alert them
( and counteract the Lobbies
) to the dangers of radio-active substances in foods, the contamination of'ur water~ the destxuctive force of some elements, and.the chemica1 mixtures-M the atmosphere which become lethal to all life It is URGENT that we strive to bring immediate SOLAR energy, and ban both nuclear testing,
- weapons,
'and, nuclear power write this
'nowing that many nations want BOTH, and expect the U.S. to se11 it to them-then they find the dangers, and then they could sueo
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r Minter, 1976-77 C.A.R.P.
VINCENT SHEEAN, in Lead Kindly, E'.i~ht, re..sparked on one of that if a mass ever Q I 1-,
equals the velocity of light, its magnitude
~
becomes infinite; even the tiny electron is a mass
( the negative part of an atom
) and it has almost reached the vel-ocity of light, and does this in every atomic explosion.
( Of which there. are millions in every sustained fission of nuclear reactors ).
He states therefor, that its capacity for total destruction is "well" on its way towards infinity.
Dr. NQRIIAN RASMUSSEN whose many-volumed report minimizes thb dangers of'uclear reactox's and emisaions or accidents, received'-
NO. CRITICAL questions from the Join Committee on Nuclear
( Atomic)
Energy Sen. Tunney is on this committee, and you read
( CARP, ll~ 1976
) how he thinks that nuclear power should continue fox the next several decades
~ Hay be learn otherwise, and urge SOLAR energy also In 1975 SENATOR
~~CYLOPD i;=MON urged the government to f~~~cia3.
ly aid small solar business groups who deal directly with the public This was to urge incividuals to install their own SOLAr
- panels, rather than utilities ~ Today the =L"-CT."IC PC'nM PMEARC}.
XlfSTITUTE is assisting GE with 'ts contract, thou~~
President 7ord~s views on the dangerous F:.-ZZ)W program cause one to sF'ud-
- der, fox he, though I sent him my report "Radiation Hazards and Clean wergy" last winter, goes along with the nuclear= industry.
However JEBEL'APTER's Neil Sader in ATLAS% A states that perhaps CARMr. will use some of my material in his campaign.
Ve of'ARP are hoping either to bring the University of Colorado> s SOLAR. KQjXBIT to Fort Z,auderdale, or to interest 3.oca3. colleges in an adaptation, Funds will be needed, and donations wil3. be wildly and appreciatively accepted.
The UNIVERSITY OF HEST FLORI~
DA at PENSACOLA has a course in SOLAR EKV~RGY taught by Dr. PATRICEC
.N. ESPY, "aerospace engineer
<<nd researcher for the University Ot'rkansas~
Local. universities have not a course',
thous
@he UNI-VERSITY OF NIApII received.
a f'ederal grant 3ast yeax f'r worR in SOLAR and othex f'orms of energy; according to President EIEKHY KING STANFORD, two grants will enaole the University to deve3.op a plan for a school to be both heated and cooled by SOLAR EIPRGY.
Another un&versity offering a course in SOLAR ener~, is the CGH9JNITY COLZZGE OP DZh"JERE SPECIAL TP>WS TO KAY DERMAL for her contxibution this year, and.
to MPS FAZEL F>SNUSSEN.
Stamps and publishing are a vital necessi-ty e VALERIE PRX% S group, CUABE, s ought to prevent another nuclear reactor on Hutchinson Island; she is oux menber in STUART.
1976-1977 DUES still $3, but this does not cover costs Geraldine Rasmussen Director
REELFOOT-AN EARTHQUAKE LAKE TENNEESSEE And The Account of An Eyewitness Wilbur Nelson:
- January, 192$ National Geographic
- Magazine, Pages 103-5, "Here is the account oi an eyewitness, one of, the r
pioneers, Eliza Bryan, living at Nev Hadrid, neax the cliffs where Hickman nov stands She wrote to her pastor, the Rev-erend Lorenzo Dov, the following letter:
Dear "On the 16th of December,
- 1811, about 2 o'clock a' a violent shock of. earthquake,,
accompanied by a very avful noise, resembling loud but distant thunder, but hoarse and vibrating, followed by complete saturation of the atmosphere vith sulphurous in t t 1 darkness The screams of the inhabitants, r ies of the fowls and beasts of'ver y species, the falling of th N9.
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'as retrograde for a few minutes, ow ng, as an eruption in its bed, formed a scene truly horrible "From that time until about sunrise a number of lighter shocks occurred, at vhich time one more violent than the first took place with the same accompaniments'There were several shocks in a day, but lighter than Chose mentioned, until the 23rd. of January,
- 1812, when one oc-curred as v o en as i 1 C
Che severest of the former ones, accompan-ied'b the same phenomena.
"From this time on until tbe /th of February tbe earth 1 a itation, visibly waving as a gentle sea.
On was in c ont nua ag a
as hard as the preceding that day there was another shock, nearly as ones next day foux such, and on Che 7th, at about
- q. o'clock a.m.,
a concussion'o p ace k
1 so much more violent than those preced-in it that it is denominated the
~hard shock~
o "Tbe Mississippi first seemed to recede from its banks, and its waters gathered up like a mountain, leaving for a moment a
boats which were on their vay to Nev Orleans, on tbe bare wbi, th r sailors made their escape from them.
nt ra Xd as a torrent The boats, whIch before
- had, oorings and s
been left on the sand, were now tom rom e
denl driven up a e
little cxeek at. the mouth of which they bad t
a laid, to a dis ance y
in some instances of nearly a quarter of mile ~
"The x iver, a
g mm f llin immediately as rapidly as it had ris-en receded within its banks with such violence that it tookk vith of oung cottonwood Crees which had" hedged its borders.
They vere broken off with such regu ar stances that persons who had not vitnessed the fact could be w d d th t it had not been tbe work of mano The river was literally covered vith vrecksi of boats "The surface of the earth vas from time Co time by these hard shocks covered to vax ous p
ious de Chs b sandwhich issued from fissureses that vere made in gxeat numbers a
over Cry.
Some of these close up mme 1
d up immediately after they had vomited t
2 REELP00T AN EARTHQUAKE LAKE forth their sand and water. In some places,
- however, a sub-stance resembling coal or impure stone coal was thrown up with the sand.
h "It is impossible to say what the depth of the fis-sures was; we have reason to believe that some of them wexe very deep "The site of this town was settled down at least 15 feet, but not more Chan a half mile below there does not ap pear to be any alteration of the bank of the x ivero "Back from the river large ponds, or lakes, which covered a large part of the country, were nearly dried. up. The beds of some of them are elevated several feet above the former banks, producing an altexation from their ordinal state of 10 or 20 feet, and lately it has been discovered that a lake was formed on the opposite side of the NI.ssissippi, in the Indian
- country, upwaz ds of 100 mlles long and from one to six mlles wide, of a depth of from 10 to 50 feet ~
"Me continually to feel light shocks occasionally, It is seldom that we are more than a week without feeling one, and sometimes thexe are three ox four in a day. There were two this winter past, much harder than for two years past; but since then they appear to be lighter than they have ever been.
Your humble servant,
~Eliza Bryani 'n Today the lake is nearer Q. miles in length and, Q miles in widtho Nilbur Nelson, who wrote the article which quotes the above account terms that fact exaggerated, however much can hap-pen in one hundred years, including lake settling and drainageo Noted men such as Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett also left ac>>
- counts, and General Rogex's of Revolutionary fame, who lived at the foot of the Cumberland Mountain, 200 miles to the east, "saw great blocks of sandstone, loosened from the escarpment J lp000 feet above the river, crash down the mountain sides."'ndians ln Canada reported the earth tremors, settlers and Indians ln Missouri and Arkansas
~ Ne~ Orleans, 500 mlI.es away, Detroit~ 600 miles away, Washington~
700 miles away, Boston, at 1~100 mi1es, and the southern states a11 felt the earthquake
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At the Mississippi where there was much sand and few huge rocks, loose sand and clay from a depth of 2~000 feet formed "vex itable sand gey'sex's "The great forest trees moved, with bxanches interlocked~
like fields of grain before the'ind. Their trunks, nog having the suppleness of youth, fell prostrate or reclined at grotesque angles to the earth."
All this', according to the Indians, because Chief Reel-foot, a Chickasaw chief with a deformed foot, fell in love with a Choctaw Indian Princess; the old Choctaw Chief told Reelfoot Chat Laughing Eyes was Co be given only to a Choctaw chiefben, but Reelfoot desired Laughing Eyes, and could not be pursuaded to abandon his desire aven after the Great Spirit told Reelfoot that an Indi'an must not steal his wife from another tribe~ or he would cause the earth to rock, and the waters to swallow allo
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I"4 Keeping Healthy in a po((aleti tVofill black population has actually dccfcascd. A further claini that thc high rate of sickness and death afc duc to iionradio:!ctivc '!ir pol-lution was not taken seriously, since that type of pollution is thc same in Aliquippa as everywhcrc cise in western Pennsylvania.
Duqucsne Light, in self-defense, contracted for another study by National Utilities Servic."Corp. Thc study was assigned for analysis to Professor Morris DcGfoot, head of thc Dcp:!rtmcnt of Statistics at Carnegie-Melion1Uiiivcfsity.
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DcGroot's studies confirmed,Stcfnglass's.
It was shown that in 1970;,tEc year of highest infant mortality
~v~40.
in Aliquippa, the level of strontium 90 in milk at thc six local dairies also reached an all;time high. It was actually 75 percent higher than the average concentration for thc region. Unwilling to believe their results, the Nationhl Vtilitics Service technicians rc-
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peated their measurements'three times. After that there was no longer any room for doubt.
v~~y Thus, cvcn from what is considered one of the safest of atomic power plants, there is a discharge of radioactive gases. Kcp't within the limits that the Atomic,Energy Commission considers permis-sible, as the discharges are:-'~at<Shippingport, the gases do contain radioactive strontium which'= ~aals to the ground. Because of'its chemical aAinity for calciuin>~Sic radioactive strontium gets into the grass and other highwalciuin cattle feed. Through the feed it gets into the milk, and from.tht=fnilLinto the children.
It should also be remembered that ivhile small children are thc Qrst to show the effects of1falloui. and probably accumulate more because they nrc heavy milkdiinkcfs, the effects arc by iio means limited to them. Radioactive';minerals will be found in all food und adults accumulate the~too Deposited into bone, they can caus bone cancer.
TheyIcan;tl~atn>gc chromosomes and result in dcfe iiv. or dead babies'nd ui<<e is some reason to beli ve they can ai. o simply shorten life by a'Iecting thc iiuclei.:icids, without causing any specific diseasZat'~~
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B>>t his activities <ii<1 >>r>t keep Recit<>ot from thi>>ki>> ~ oi liis Invc ninl (v<>ii<lcriiig if thc Great Spirit tvot)ld really <lo n: hc said.
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For the firstcjn)e Reel foot <Ii<1>>nt tva>>t to believe the Great Spirit; sn. n: tlic days grew short and the>>iaize was gatliere<l, he planned tvjth his tvarrinrs tn go outli a>>d capture the forbidden maiden.
Khen the first snows came they started.
a>>d, swooping do(vn on the Chocta(vs. he cap-tured the princess and !led back to the north.
Laughing Eyes was greatly frightened, for she had heard )vhat the Great Spirit had said to Reelfoot.
She feared for her-selff and implored that he send her back to her father; but Reelfoot was in Inve and.
notv that he possessed his h>nged-for bride, divas avjlljng to defy everything.
One starry night he brought his>>rin-cess bride home. and there divas great re-joicing among his people, for>>oiv their tribal family tvas complete.
'I'he festival fires burned; the pots boiled a>>'I "!e veni-son brotvned nn the spit.
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~.'ntcrs nard and, backi>>g on his cour.c, rt)~bed over Reel f<x>t's cr>u>>try.
Khcre tlic Grat S>>irit sta>>)perl the earth the Xljssjssjppj f<>rmed n beautiful lake. in the lx>tt<>>>> of tvhich lay Reclioot, his bri<le a>><l his peoiile.
Such is the Indian Icgend of Reclfoot Lake (6).
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"From that time until about sunrise a <>umber oi lighter shncl's occurnd.
at wl>ich tinic onc more violent tl>an the first tr>uk place tvith the same accompanimcnts.
"There werc several shocks in a day. but lighter than those mentio<>e(I. until the ~grd oi January.
)S) >, ivhen onc occurred as violent as the severest oi thc iortncr ones, accompanied by the same phenomena "From this time on until thc 4th oi February thc earth tvas in continual agitation, visibly ivaving as a gentle sca.
On tliat day thcrc was another shock, nearly as hard as the prccaling ones; next day four suck and on the yth. at about p o'lock a. m.. a concussion to<>k~ place so much morc viol<<ut than those preccdirg it that it is denominated the hard shock.'The
~fississippi first sermcd to recede from its banks, and its xvat<<rs g<<thcrcd up like a
- mountain, leaving fr>r a mr<<neat many 1><>ats, which were on their )vay to Xc>v Orleans.
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- sand, in which time the p<wr sailnrs made their cscapc )ruin them.
"Then, rising ta or m feet pcrpcndicularly and expanding, as it wrote, at thc;amc time.
thc banks overf!oivcrl )vith a rctrograd>> current rapid as a torrent.
Tlic boats. which before had been left on the san<1. (vere mnv tom from their moorings a<>d suddenly driven up a little creek, at thc mouth of )vhich they had laid. to a dis-tance iii some i>>stage~>> ot nearly a quarter of a mile.
"Th<<river, falling immedi:<tcly as rapirlly as it ha<1 risen, r<cedcd wi(1>i>> its baal's
<vith ~>>eh violcncc that it tor>k with it whole grnv<vocal trr.ich harl hedged its br>rder~.
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Thc river was literally c<r>v<.r<<d with >erick>> of br>ats.
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