48 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
ebftruction to travellers, occafioned: 
fo important an undertaking. 
- From the Jamaica Gazette we 
have the following. particulars of 
the dreadful earthquake which haps' 
pened. laft February,.at Quito, in 
’ South America... This dreadful cas! 
lamity began. at Quito at half patt: 
feven, A. M.-and; lafted, from. thei 
beft calculation, upwards. of three 
minutes. The elegant college of; 
Saint. Fernando isin ruins. “The 
large edifice of Santa Domingo is 
contiderably damaged; the Grand, 
Tower was broken into many piec- 
es, and a number of the cells ens, 
tirely deftroyed; the ftudent's 
fchool is in ruins; The. high 
church of Del Carmen, one of'the 
moft elegant fabrics in the place, is. 
totally demolifhed: The Tower 
of la Merced is nearly in the fame 
ftate: it has been ordered to’ be: 
pulled, down... the Church» dela: 
Conception has fuffered confidera- 
bie damage. Indeed: all the beft 
buildings of the place are quite def. 
troyed. Noneof the low buildings 
have: received) any damage. At) 
Facunga the: earthquake began 
fome time patt feven o’clock, A.M. 
and the agitation of the earth con- 
tinued till two o’clock, P. M. leav-: 
ing the. villages entirely in ruins, 
not a building being left ftanding, 
except an arch in the great fquare, 
and a part of 4 neighbouring houfe. 
The people who have perifhed are 
innumerable. 
St. Auguftir, St. Domingo; and la 
Merced, were crowded with people 
hearing mafs; not one.of whom. 
were faved. The.whole place o-. 
pened into gullies, out. of which 
large .quantities' of water iffued. 
Don Francifco Camacho was fwal- 
lowed up; and no account has 
‘been received of. Don Antonio 
The churches of: 
Texado, who was with him The 
village of St. Philip, which is near’ 
to Fecunga, is fwallowed. up: iw 
this place there! was.a-{chool int 
which were upwards of forty: chil- 
dren, who have fuffered the fame 
fates There are -dilferent! reports: 
refpecting the village: of Almbazio::’ 
it isdfaid. likewife: torbe int ruins. 
The famous eftate: of: the Marquis: 
de Miraflores, on which was a cloth’ 
manufactory, all his horfes, and an’ 
elegant church, arey entirely def-. 
troyed, and many lives|loft. "Cale- 
ra, an eftate adjoining the Marquis’s, 
is fwallowed: up, and» fearcely the 
veftige ofa houfe to befeeny . “Ala- 
ques, Saguiali, Pugili;. Fachuchi, 
and other confiderable villages and’ 
eftates, are entirely ruined. Ma- 
chache, Aloaci, Amaguana, Alvay, 
and other villages in the neighbour- 
hood of Facunga, have’ fuffered 
great damage. Not a church is 
left: ftanding in either ‘of thefe 
places. The mountains: of Calo- 
paci opened in feveral ee and 
iffied great quantities of water; a 
{mall hill near to the city threw up 
vaft heaps of ftones. This earth- 
quake is faid to be:much feverer. 
than that which happened -in 1755. 
26th. Several of the:mail-coaches: 
did not arrive at the Poft-office in: 
time this morning for the delivery 
of letters, owing to the heavy rains. 
which had deluged «different: parts 
of the countrys ym i 
_ Mr. Brookes and Mr. Magiftra, 
King’s meffengers, were drowned | 
as they were landing from’ the 
Diana packet, at Calais, in their 
way to Lifle, with difpatches: * 
30th. Larly this morning, an 
old houfe in Greengate - ftreet, 
behind Whitechapel church,’ fell 
down. There were fifteen. per- 
fons in the building; buta weaver, 
whe 
