Chap. 48.] Quay, fcfr. of Ltjlon dejlroyed. 37 1 



time a great number of boats and fmall veflcls, an- 

 chor it (all likewife full of people, who had 

 ret in for the fame purpofe) were all fwal- 

 lowed up, as in a whirlpool, and never more ap- 

 peared. 



* This laft dreadful incident I did not fee with my 

 own eyes, as it pafied three or four ftones throws from 

 the fpot where I then was, but I had the account as 

 here given from feveral matters of Ihips, who were 

 anchored within two or three hundred yards of the 

 quay, and law the whole cataftrophe One of them 

 in particular informed me, that when the fecond fhock 

 came on, he could perceive the whole city waving 

 backwards and forwards, like the fca when the wind 

 firil begins to rife; that the agitation of the earth was 

 ib great even under the river, that it threw up his 

 large anchor from the mooring, which fwam, as he 

 termed it, on the furface of the water ; that imme- 

 diately upon this extraordinary concufTion, the river 

 rofe at o ce near twenty feet, and in a moment fub- 

 fkiedj at which inftant he faw i;t- quay, with the whole 

 concourfe of people upon it, fink down, and at the 

 fame time every one of the boats and veffels that were 

 near it were drawn into the caviry, which he fuppofes 

 inftantly clofed upon them, inaimuch as not the leaft 

 fign of a wreck was ever feen afterwards. This ac- 

 count you may give full credit to, for as to the lofs 

 of the veffels, it is confirmed by every body; and 

 with regard to the quay, I went myfelf a few days 

 after, to convince rnyfelfof the truth, and could not 

 find even the ruins of a place, where I had taken Ib 

 many agreeable walks, as this was the common ren- 

 dezvous of the factory in the cool of the evening. I 

 found it all deep water, and in fome parts fcarcely to 

 be fathomed. 



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