182. Mr. Woodbine Parish on the Effects of the 
A few years afterwards (in 1582) Arequipa was destroyed 
by an earthquake. 
In 1586, on the 9th of July, happened an earthquake at 
Lima which, according to the Viceroy’s account of it, was 
felt for 170 leagues along the coast. Amongst other calami- 
tous consequences of it, Acosta mentions that ‘ the sea then 
was upheaved as on the former occasion on the coast of Chile, 
rising afler the shock of the earthquake mightily out of its bed, 
and bursting over the shore nearly two leagues inland, over- 
whelming all that shore, and leaving the shrubs and trees as it 
were swimming in the waters.” 
Frezier in the account of his voyage to the South Seas (in 
1712, 1713, 1714,) speaks of an earthquake wave which de- 
stroyed the town of Arica in 1605. He says, * On the 26th 
of November 1605, the sea, being agitated by an earthquake, 
suddenly flooded and bore down the greatest part of it; the 
ruins of the streets are to be seen to this day,” &c. 
The next account we have of a similar event is from Ulloa’s 
Voyage to South America. In enumerating the earthquakes 
experienced at Lima, he writes: “ One of the most dreadful 
of which we have any account was that of the 20th of Octo- 
ber 1687. It began at four in the morning, with the destruc- 
tion of several public edifices and houses, whereby great num- 
bers of persons perished ; but this was little more than a pre- 
sage of what was to follow, &c. &c. 
“¢ During the second concussion, the sea retired considerably 
JSrom its bounds, and returning in mountainous waves, totally 
overwhelmed Callao and the neighbouring parts, together with 
the miserable inhabitants.” 
Our own countryman Lionel Wafer, who was in those seas 
at the time, says, “* When we were in the latitude of 12 de- 
grees 30! south, and about 150 leagues from the coast, our 
ship and bark felt a terrible shock, which put our men into 
much consternation, so that they could hardly tell where they 
were, or what to think, but every one began to prepare for 
death ; and, indeed, the shock was so sudden and violent that 
we took it for granted the ship had struck upon a rock: but 
when the amazement was a little over, we cast the lead and 
sounded, but found no ground, so that after consultation we 
concluded it must certainly be some earthquake. The sud- 
denness of the shock made the guns of the ship leap in their 
carriages, and several of the men were shaken out of their 
hammocks: Capt. Davis, who lay with his head over a gun, 
was thrown out of his cabin. The sea, which ordinarily looks 
green, seemed then of a whitish colour, and the water which 
we took up in our buckets for the ship’s use we found to be 
mixed with sand: this at first made us think there was some 
