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city, and found himself exposed all at once 

 to the glaring light of the day, as well as 

 the rest of us. 'Tis impossible as yet to 

 tell all the damage that has been done. The 

 walls of the grand house for the infants, are 

 tumbled in ; and great numbers of the little 

 innocents perished under the rubbish. The 

 eggary has fared yet worse. Our store- 

 houses, and great part of the grain in them 

 are destroyed. In one word, almost all our 

 houses, and the palace itself, is nothing but 

 one heap of ruins. The heavy rains which 

 fell that afternoon, and all the next night, 

 have completed our misfortunes; and we 

 have scarcely enough left alive to bury the 

 dead. 



It is thought by most, that the occasion 

 of this great calamity to our nation, was an 

 earthquake ; for it must, they say, have re- 

 quired some general disorder in Nature, to 

 move so vast, and so extended a rock, as that 

 was over us. Others say, it was one of those 

 prodigious monsters, which Providence (out 

 of its goodness to us) allows but two legs to 

 walk upon, that they may not crush yet more 

 regiments of our people to death than they 



