Evetit ITukdked Years.—The following has gone the rounds of the South American papers, as a singular coincidence: —The first earthquake on record in Peru occurred in the year IGGB. A century after, on the 23rd of April, 1766, at half-past 6 o'clock, a.m., Arica and the town within its jurisdiction were destroyed by an earthquake which extended its ravages to Areqtiipa. The year 1768 passed oil' without any unusual phenomenon ; but the great earthquake of the 13th August, 1860, at a distance of two centuries from the last mentioned, may very well count for two. It is not a little remarkable that these stupendous convulsions of nature should each have occurred in the 60th year of three different centuries.
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 425, 10 December 1868, Page 3
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