ico The ^aturatt and Moratt 



Fecit h&c vttimtAtur. Returning then to our purpofe,t 

 fay the fea coaft is moft fubied to thefe earthquakes ? the 

 reafon is , in my iudgement 5 for that the water ciooth 

 flop the conduites and paflages of the earth, by which 

 the hote exhalations fhould paffe, which are engende 

 red there. And alfo the humiditie thickning the fuper- 

 ficies of the earth, dooth caufethe fumes and hot exha 

 lations to goe clofc together and incounter violently in 

 the bowells of the eanh, which doe afterwards breake 

 forth. 



Some have obferved , thatfuch Earthquakes have 

 vfually hapned, whenas a ramie feafon falles after fome 

 drieyeeres. Wherevpon they fay, that the Earthquakes 

 are moft rare, where are moft welles, the which is ap- 

 proovedby experience. Thofe of the Cittie of Mexico 

 holde opinion, that the Lake whereon it is feated,is the 

 caufe of the Earthquakes that happen there, although 

 they be not very violent:and it is moft certaine,that the 

 Townes and Provinces, farre within the land, and far- 

 theft from the fea , receive fometimcs great lofTcs by 

 thefe Earthquakes , as the Cittie of Chachapoyas at the 

 Indies, andin/ta&thatof^mi>v*, although vpon this 

 fubicft . It feemes this latter, being neere to a river,and 

 not forre from thc^r/^/Vfea , fliould rather be num- 

 bred among the fea-Townes. In the yeere of our Lord 

 * one thoufand five hundred cightie and orte, in Cuguno, 

 a Cittie of Pent, otherwif e called the Peace, tli ere hap 

 ned a ftrange accident touching this fubieft. A village 

 called Angoango (where many Indians dwelt that were 

 fbrcerersand idolatrcrs) fell fodainely to ruine , fo as a 

 great parte thereof was railed vp and carried away, and 

 many of the Indians fmothered, and that which feems 

 incredible(yctteftified by men of credit) the earth that 



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