Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 558
red the observatory and found aprofessor explaining the uses of someastronomical instruments. Isabel wasinterested in the recording of earth-quakes in this land of earthquakes.No matter if the weary professorssleep on a stormy night, the story ofthe earthquake will be told in themorning by the… … glass plate revolves, and pens trace on it themovements of the earthquake. No mere surface shaking is recorded, becausethe instrument is placed on a pier which restson bed-rock and touches nothing else. Isabel was too young to understand much mountain-side, she screamed aloud in fright, asthe great…
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