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other buiklino's of the place ; so that vliaf ever had 

 eseaped the first, was now totally overwhelmed by 

 those terrible mountains of waves; and nothing re- 

 mamed except a piece of the wall of the fort of Santa 

 Cruz, as a memorial of this terrible devastation. There 

 were then twenty-three ships and vessels, great and 

 small, in the harbour, of which nineteen were abso- 

 lutely sunk, and the other four, among which was a 

 frigate called St. Fermín, carried by the force of the 

 waves to a great distance up the country. 



This terrible inundation extended to other ports 

 on the coast, as Cavallos and Guanape ; and the 

 towns ofChancay, Guara, and the vaileys della Ba- 

 ranca, Sape, and Pati^ ilea, underwent the same fate 

 as the city of Lima. The number of persons who 

 perished in the ruin of that city, before the 31st of 

 the same moiith of October, according to the bodies 

 found, amounted to 1300, besides the maimed and 

 wounded, many of which lived only a short time in 

 torture At Callao, where the number of inhabitants 

 amounted to about 4000, two hundred only escaped; 

 and twenty two of these by means of the abve-men- 

 tioned fragment of a wall. 



According to an account sent to Lima after this 

 accident, a volcano in Lucanas burst forth the same 

 night and ejected such quantities of water, that the 

 whole country was overflowed; and in the mountain 

 near Patas, called Conversiones de Caxamarquilla, 

 three other volcanoes burst, discharging frightful tor- 

 rents of water ; like that of Carguayrasso, mentioned 

 in the first volume of this Work. 



Some days before this deplorable event, subterra- 

 neous noises were heard at Lima, sometimes resem- 

 lling the bellowing of oxen, and at others the 

 discharges of artillery. And even after the earth- 

 quake they were still heard during the silence of the 

 liig;ht; a convincing proof that the inflammable 



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