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Charles Town, and in two minutes, or a little 

 more, came back again to its ufual bounds,which 

 are within twenty yards of it j the Foundation 

 Rock in the lower part of the Town, burfting at 

 the fame inftant, and cafting out a confiderable 

 quantity of Water 3 and indeed fome of the 

 marks of this burfting were vifible enough in my 

 time. This Convulfion was on a Simday in the 

 Afternoon, whilft fome of my Parifliioners were 

 drinking a bowl of Rum Punch, which one of 

 them had then in his hand, in order to fet it down 

 upon the table ; and fo dear a lover of the good 

 creature was he, that he aflured me, he did not 

 fpill a fingle drop, though the Bowl was twa 

 thirds full. A huge piece of our Nevis Moun- 

 tain, which in my judgment is confiderably high- 

 er than the Mountain at Saint Chrijlopher^y fell 

 down, and left a monftrous rocky fpot of it quite 

 naked and bare, which continues in that ftate to 

 this very day. Our Nevis Mountain has been 

 meafured with a Quadrant from the Bay at Charles 

 Town, and is faid to be exadtly a mile and a half 

 in perpendicular height, though to tell truth I do 

 not think it fo high ; it is far his/her than the 

 Black Mountain called Coal in Norway however, 

 and that too called Skiddaw in Cumberland^ both 

 of which I have i^tw. Not long after this violent 

 Shock, a Workman who with many others were 

 building a Houfe upon the lower part of Charles 



Town, 



