104 M E M O I R S of tbe 
hand-mills; and the ^ral^s in lummer heats ule thefe huflcs, 
roafted after the manner of coflfee -berries, efrceming the drink 
more cooling, as being fourifh to the tafbe : A A reprefents the 
flirub, wherein is obfervable the manner of its branching and of 
the growing of the leaves and fruity aaaa the fruitgrowing 
two, three, or more at a place on the twigs- B one of the leaves, 
of its natural bignefs; G the fruit, of the true fize and figure j c 
the fruit, with the hufk on; e the fruit, with the outer hulk ta- 
ken oiF; / / the berry, with both hulks taken off. 
^n Earthquake /;/ Jamaica. Phil. Tranf. N° 209. p. 89. 
THE year 1592 began in Jamaica with very dry and hot 
weather, which continued till May, when it became very 
windy and rainy, till the end of the month ; from which time, 
till the earthquake happened, it was exceflive hot, calm, and dry ; 
and on Tiiefday the yth q^ June^ about 40 minutes paft 1 1 o'clock 
in the forenoon, it being then a very hot, clear, fun-fliiny day, 
fcarcely a cloud to be feen m the iky, or a breath of air to be felt, 
that great fliock, lb fatal to this illand, happened ; it began with 
a fmall trembling, which was fucceeded by a flronger Ihake, 
together with a hollow rumbling noife, almofl like that of 
thunder; immediately upon this, there enfued a third violent 
fhock. which in lels than a minute's time /hook the very founda- 
tions of Tort -royal, that three parts in four of the houles, and 
the ground whereon they flood, and moil of thole who inhabited 
them, funk at once quite under water, and the houies, on the 
ground that was left, were fhattered in a violent manner, Icarcely 
one houle in ten was left ftanding, and thofe lb Unattered, that 
few of them were fit to live in ; all the ftreets next the wafer to- 
wards the harbour fide, lay in (J or 8 fathom water, where for- 
merly were excellent wharfs, dole to which (hips of 700 tun 
might lie and unload, and where ftood the beft llore houles and 
conveniencies for merchants, and the mofi: ftately buildings: The 
fliock was lb violent that it threw people down on their knees, 
and fometimes on their flices, as they ran about the ftreets to pro- 
vide for their lafety, and it was a very difficult matter to keep on 
one's legs, the ground heaving and fvvelling like a rolling fea, by 
which means feveral houfes, that continued to iTand, were ihuf- 
fled and moved Ibme yards from thrir places; in many places the 
ground would crack, open and liiddenly Hiut again, m which 
openings leverals were fwallowed up ; ibme were caught by the 
middle and Iqueezed to death; the heads of others only appeared 
above ground; fome were fwallowed quite down, and call up 
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