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of the congregation, that was generally pretty nume- 

 rous, this being reckoned one of the moft populous 

 parifhes in Lifbon. Here I flood fome time, confi- 

 dering what I (hould do, and not thinking myfelf fafe 

 in this ficuation, I came to the refolution of climbing 

 over the ruins of the weft end of the church, in order 

 to get to the river fide, that I might be removed, as far 

 as poffible, from the tottering houfes, in cafe of a fe- 

 cond fnock. 



* /This, with fome difficulty, I accompliflied, and 

 here I found a prodigious concourfe of people, of both, 

 fcxes, and of all ranks and conditions, among whom I 

 obferved fome of the principal canons of the patriar- 

 chal church, in their purple robes and rochets, as thefe 

 ail go in the habit of brfhops j feveral priefts who had 

 run from the altars in their facerdotal veftments in the 

 midft of their celebrating mafsj ladies half dreflfed, 

 and fome without Ihoes ; all thefe, whom their mu- 

 tual dangers had here ailembled as to a place of 

 fafety, were on their knees at prayers, with the terrors 

 of death in their countenances, every one ftriking his 

 breaft, and crying out inceffantly, Miferecordia men 

 Dies. 



' In the midft of our devotions, the fecond great 

 fliock came on, little lefs violent than the firft, and 

 completed the ruin of thoie buildings which had been 

 already much fhattered. The confirmation now be- 

 came ib univerfal, that the fhrieks and cries of Mifere- 

 tordia could be diftindlly heard from the top of St. 

 Catherine's hill, at a confiderable diftance off, whither 

 a vaft number of people had likewife retreated j at the 

 fame time we could hear the fall of the parifh church 

 there, whereby many perfons were killed on the fpot, 

 and others mortally wounded. You may judge of the 

 force of this fhock, when I inform you, it was fo vio- 



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