Excerpt from The Autobiography of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler We next find William Shaler engaged in government employ ment, apparently occupied in watching the actions Of the River Company in the region Of the lower Mississippi. While thus engaged, he recorded certain phenomena connected with the New Madrid earthquakes Of 1811. He was upon a broad horn boat which was carried some distance upstream by the reflux Of the current due to the widespread subsidence of the alluvial plains, caused by the shocks and the movement of the river waters into the depressed areas. His steadiness under disturbance and his aptitude for seeing clearly at such times is well Shown in his narrative of the event. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.