LETTER 11. 



Town, flruck an Iron Crow (in a hole of about 

 a foot deep) againft the Foundation Rock, in or- 

 der to dig the hole deeper : The Rock it is true 

 broke, but the Iron Crow funk far too deep ; for 

 a Lignum-vitaj Poft of a foot diameter and fif- 

 teen foot long was no fooner tried to be fixed 

 there, than it followed the Crow, and neither of 

 them were ever after feen above ground : How- 

 ever, they covered over the Hole which was fill- 

 ed with water immediately upon the breaking up 

 of the Foundation Rock, not daring to build 

 There -, but like thoughtlefs and incurious Folks, 

 did not with a long Line and Plummet, try how 

 deep the Water in the Hole was. My own opi- 

 nion of the matter is^ That though no one has loft 

 his life by this Earthquake, yet hereafter. That 

 all that part of Charles Town will one time or 

 other fink down into the Sea (by the Shock of a 

 more violent one) as Port Royal in Jamaica did. 



43. Mariners pretend that the long run of 

 Charibee Iflands that reach from Florida down a 

 great way into ^onth America, were formerly 

 joyned all together, being changed from Maiii 

 Land into Iflands by fuch Earthquakes and E- 

 ruptions : And the Reafons afligned for this very 

 odd Conjedlure are as follow, ^'jiz. That moft of 

 the larger ones, fuch as Nevis^ Saint Chrijlophers^ 

 Montferraty Giiardaloupe^ Saint Vi?2cent'?> &c, are 

 full freighted with veins of Sulphur and Brim- 



E flone^ 



