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last judgment can be ; and I regret that my anxiety for my patient 

 overcoming other feelings, I had not my due portion of that sublime 

 terror : but I looked round and I saw it. Amid the noise of the de- 

 struction before and around us, I heard the lowings of the cattle 

 all the night through ; and I heard too the screaming of the sea- 

 fowl, which ceased not till morning. There was not a breath of air ; 

 yet the trees were so agitated, that their topmost branches seemed 

 on the point of touching the ground. It was some time ere our 

 spirits recovered so as to a'sk each other what was to be done; but 

 we placed Glennie, who had had a severe hemorrhage from the 

 lungs instantly, under a tree in an arm-chair. I stood by him while 

 Mr. B. entered the house and procured spirits anfl water, of which 

 we all took a little ; and a tent was then pitched for the sick man, 

 and we fetched out a sofa and blankets for him. Then I got a man 

 to hold a lioht, and venture with me to the inner rooms to fetch 

 medicine. A second and a third shock had by this time taken place, 

 but so much less violent than the first, that we had reasonable hopes 

 that the worst was over ; and we proceeded through the ruined sit- 

 ting-rooms to cross the court where the wall had fallen, and as we 

 reached the top of the ruins, another smart shock seemed to roll 

 them from under our feet. At length we reached the first door of 

 the sleeping apartments ; and on entering I saw the furniture dis- 

 placed from the walls, but paid little attention to it. In the second 

 room, however, the disorder, or rather the displacing, was more 

 striking ; and then it seemed to me that there was a regularity in the 

 disposal of every thing : this was still more apparent in my own 

 room ; and after having got the medicines and bedding I went for, 

 I observed the furniture in the different rooms, and found that it 

 had all been moved in the same direction. This morning I took in 

 my compass, and found that direction to be north-west and south- 

 east. The night still continued serene ; and though the moon went 

 down early, the sky was light, and there was a faint aurora australis. 

 Having made Glennie lie down in the tent, I put my mattress on the 

 ground by him. Mr. Bennet, and the overseer, and the workmen, 



