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again wirh great quantities of water 5 others went down without 
being ever after feen 5 larger openings fwallowed up great houlcs, 
and out of fome gapings whole rivers of water would iflue forth, 
fpouted up to a great height into the air, which leemed to threaten 
a deluge, and were accompanied with oHenfive fmells 5 and by 
thefe openings, and the vapours emitted from the earth into the 
air, the llcy, which before was clear and blue, was in a moment's 
time become dull and reddifli, like a red hot oven 3 all thole 
dreadful circumllances occurring at once, and accompanied all the 
time with prodigious loud noiies from the mountains, caufed by 
their falling, ^Jc. and alfo with a hollow noife under ground, and 
people running from one place to another with ghaftly looks and 
more refembling the dead than the living, made it a very melan- 
choly Icene: Tho' ^ort Royal lliffered much by the earthquake, 
jet It left more houfes flandipg there than in all the ifland be* 
lldes^ it was fo violent in other places, that people could not 
keep on their legs, but were forcibly thrown down on the ground 5 
it Icarcely left a planter's houfe or lugar-work ftanding all over 
the ifland 3 in leveral places in the country the earth gaped pro- 
digioufly, and houfes, people and trees were fwallowed up, and 
the place was afterwards become a great pool or lake of water; and 
in lome places thele gapings or openings fpouted up with prodi- 
gious force great quantities of water into the air 3 but the moun- 
tains I'uflfered the greatefl Ihocks, emitting at the fam.e time loud 
noiies and echoingS3 not far from Tellows^ part of a mountain, 
after it made leveral leaps or removes, overwhelmed a whole fa- 
mily, and a great part of a plantation, lying a mile oi:T3 and a large 
high mountam near Tort Morarif, about a day's journey over, 
was quite fwallowed up, and in the place where it Hood, there 
lucceeded a great lake of 4 or 5 leagues over. The tops of great 
mountains in their fall fweeped down with them trees and other 
things in their way 3 and thele vaft pieces of m.ountains with all 
the trees thereon, falling together in a huddled and confuted 
manner, flopped up moftof the rivers for about 24 hours, which 
afterwards having found out new channels, brought down into the 
fea leveral hundred thouiand tons of timber, floating therein in 
fuch prodigious quantities that they leemed like moving iflands : 
Some were of opinion that ths mountains were iunk a little, and 
others thought that the whole ifland iubfided a little, and 'Port 
Royal was laid to be iunk a foot, and in many places in Ligm- 
nidy their wells did not require fo long ropes to draw water out 
of them, as before the earthquake, by two or three foot: In the 
harbour of Port Royal at the time of the great fliock, tho' the 
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