[26] Johnstone, Dwight, The Tragedy of Halifax (in MS.).
[27] McGlashen, Rev. J. A., The Patriot (Dartmouth, N. S.).
[28] Deacon, J. Byron, Disasters (N. Y., 1918), ch. ii, p. 158.
[29] “The effect of the vast, sudden interference with the air was practically the same as if an earthquake had shaken Halifax to the ground.” (MacMechan, Archibald, “Halifax in Ruins,” The Canadian Courier, vol. xxiii, no. 4, p. 6.)
[30] The tracings on the seismograph show three distinct shocks at the hours 9.05, 9.10 and 10.05.
[31] Pliny, Letters (London, 1915), vol. i, bk. vi, p. 495.
[32] Smith, Stanley K., The Halifax Horror (Halifax, 1918), ch. ii, p. 24.
[33] Bell, McKelvie, A Romance of the Halifax Disaster (Halifax, 1918), p. 57.
[34] Spencer, Herbert, The Principles of Sociology (N. Y., 1908), pt. ii, p. 499 et seq.
[35] Lytton, Lord, The Last Days of Pompeii (London, 1896), p. 405.