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Excerpt from The Great Earthquake in Japan, October 28th, 1891: Being a Full Description of the Disasters Resulting From the Recent Terrible Catastrophe, Taken From the Accounts in the "Hyogo News" By Its Special Correspondent, and From Other Sources More recently in 1702 the loft-walls of the outside and inside moats of the castle of Yedo were destroyed, tidal waves broke along the coast in the vicinity, and the road leading through the famous pass of Hakone, was closed up by the alteration in the surface of the earth. 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.