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minute; very few escaped there. I lost all my people and goods, my wife and 

 two men, Mrs. B. and her daughter. One white maid escaped, who gave me 

 an account, that her mistress was in her closet, two pair of stairs high, and she 

 was sent into the garret, where was Mrs. B. and her daughter when she felt 

 the earthquake, and bid her take up her child and run down; but turning 

 about, met the water at the top of the garret stairs; for the house sunk down 

 right, and is now near 30 feet under water. My son and I went that morning 

 to Liguania; the earthquake took us in the mid-way between that and Port- 

 Royal, where we were near being overwhelmed by a swift rolling sea, 6 feet 

 above the surface, without any wind; but being forced back to Liguania, I 

 found all the houses even with the ground. The earth continues to shake 5 or 6 

 times in 24 hours, and often trembling. Great part of the mountains fell 

 down, and fall daily. 



N° IV. From Jamaica, dated Sept. 23, 1692. — We have had a dreadful 

 mortality since the great earthquake (for we have little ones daily) ; almost 

 half the people that escaped at Port-Royal, are since dead of a malignant 

 fever, from the change of air, want of dry houses, warm lodging, proper 

 medicines, and other conveniencies. 



N° V. Another Account of the Earthquake of June 7 , 1692. — Great part 

 of Port-Royal is sunk ; so that where the wharfs were, is now some fathoms of 

 Water: all the street where the church stood is overflowed, that the water stands 

 as high as the upper rooms of those which are standing. The earth when it 

 opened and swallowed up people, some rose in other streets, some in the 

 middle of the harbour, and were saved; though at the same time I believe 

 there were lost about 2000 whites and blacks. At the north about lOOO acres 

 of land sunk, and 13 people with it; all our houses thrown down all over the 

 island, that we were forced to live in huts. The two great mountains at the 

 entering into Sixteen Mile Walk fell and met, and stopped the river, so that it 

 was dry from that place to the Ferry for a whole day; and vast quantities of 

 fish taken up, which was greatly to the relief of the distressed. At Yellows a 

 great mountain split, and fell into the level land, and covered several settle- 

 ments, and destroyed 1 9 white people. One of the persons, whose name was 

 Hopkins had his plantation removed half a mile from the place where it for- 

 merly stood. Of all wells, from a fathom to 6 or 7> the water flew out at 

 the top, by the great motion of the earth. Since then, it has continued shaking 

 sometimes 2 or 3 times in a day. Our people settled a town at Liguanea side, 

 and there are about 500 graves already, and people every day are dying still. 



N°VI. From the same Place, and on the same Earthquake. — On Tuesday 

 the 7th of June, 1692, between 11 and 12 at noon, at Port-Royal, we felt the 



