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The mountains at Galloes fared no better than those of Sixteen- Mile- Walk, 

 a great part of one of them falling down, drove all the trees before it; and at 

 the foot of the mountain there was a plantation that was wholly overthrown 

 and buried in it. 



N° VII, Some more Particulars of the same. — As to the mountains in Le- 

 guanee, they fell in several places, and in some very steep; but the steepest 

 mountain that we heard fall, was that at Gallowes, which occasioned much 

 damage. The water in the streets of Port-Royal did not spout up, as you 

 have heard ; but in the violent shake the sand cracking and opening, in several 

 places where people stood, they sunk into it; and the water boiled out of the 

 sand, that covered many, and saved others. 



N° Vlir. Some other Particulars of the same. — The year 1692 began in 

 Jamaica with very dry and hot weather, which continued till May, when there 

 was very blowing weather, and much rain to the end of the month, from which 

 time, till the time of the earthquake, it was very hot, calm, and dry ; and on 

 Tuesday the 7th of June, about 40 min. past 11 in the forenoon, it being then 

 a very hot and fine day, scarcely a cloud to be seen in the sky, or a breath of 

 air to be felt, happened that great shake, so fatal to this place, and to the 

 whole island, which for its violence and strange effects, may perhaps be com- 

 pared with the greatest that ever yet happened in the world, and may as well 

 deserve the memory of future ages. 



It began with a small trembling, so as to make people think there was an 

 earthquake, which thoughts were immediately confirmed by a second shake 

 something stronger, accompanied all the while with a hollbw rumbling noise, 

 almost like that of thunder, which made them begin to run out of their houses. 

 But alas I this was but short warning for them to provide for their safety ; for 

 immediately succeeded the third shock, which in less than a minute's time shook 

 the very foundation of Port-Royal so that at least two parts in three of the 

 houses, and the ground whereon they stood, and most part of those who in- 

 habited them, all sunk at once quite under water: and on the place which was 

 left, and is now standing, shook down and shattered the houses in so violent a 

 manner, that at our landing, it looked like a heap of rubbish, scarcely one 

 house in ten left standing, and those so cracked and shattered, that but few of 

 them were fit, or thought safe to live in. All those trees which were next 

 the water, towards the harbour-side where there were excellent wharfs, close 

 to which ships of 700 tons might lie and deliver their lading, where were the 

 best store-houses and conveniences for merchants, where were brave stately 

 buildings, where the chief men of the place lived, and which were in ail re- 

 spects the principal parts of Port-Royal, now lie in 4, 6, or 8 fathoms water. 



