138 TRANSACTIONS. 1906-7. 



beyond Anticosti along the channel of the St. Lawrence to the 

 vicinity of Quebec and thence by a gentle curve to Lake Cham- 

 plain: "It may be very easily inferred how great was the up- 

 heaval of the earth, from the fact that such and so great a river 

 changed its color, not for a brief space of time, but for eight entire 

 days, put on a sulphurous one, and kept it constantly; for, from 

 the bowels of the earth, agitated in their nethermost depth and 

 poured into it, and from sulphurous mines, its waters were diluted 

 with an abundance of liquid sulphur." The earthquake lasted 

 with ever increasing intervals until the following September. 



Coming to the earthquake at Port Royal, near the present 

 Kingston, Jamaica, on June 7, 1692, the Anghcan minister there 

 writes the following week (15 June): "Captain Ruden's house 

 upon the first concussion sunk into the earth, and then into the 

 sea, with his wife and family, and some who were come to dine 



with him I saw the earth open and swallow up a multitude 



of people, and the sea mounting in upon us over the fortifications 



■ . the earth working all the while with new motions and 



tremblings, like the rowlings of the sea I found the sea 



had entirely swallowed up the wharf, with all the goodly brick 

 houses upon it, most of them as fine as those in Cheapside, and 



two entire streets beyond that In the space of three minutes, 



about half an hour after eleven in the morning. Port Royal 



was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for 

 the greater part by the sea, and will in a short time be wholly 



eaten up by it We guess that by the falling of the 



houses, opening of the earth and inundations of the waters, there 



are lost 1,500 persons Our great and famous burial place 



was destroj^ed by the earthquake, which dashing to pieces the 

 tombs, whereof there were hundreds in that place, the sea washed 

 the carcasses of those, who had been buried, out of their graves. 

 From St. Ann's we hear of about 1,000 acres of wood- 

 land changed into the sea, and carrying with it whole plantations. 



Whole streets (with inhabitants) were swallowed up by 



the opening earth, which then shutting upon them, squeezed the 

 people to death. And in that manner several are left buried 

 with their heads above ground; only some heads the dogs have 

 eaten, others are covered with dust and earth by the people who 



yet remain in the place, to avoid the stench The two 



great mountains at the entrance into 16-mile walk fell and, meet- 

 ing, stopt the river At Yellows, a great mountain 



