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the night of the 19th, and that the Earthquake itself was a judgment 
on the country and government, for opening the ports to heretics. 
At p. 19 of Mr. Greenough’s Address, he makes his quotation 
from the Abeja Argentina, and uses the respectable name of Mr. 
Woodbine Parish, so as to persuade his hearers, or readers, that he 
and Don Camillo Enriquez, consider Mrs. Callcott’s account as 
“ fraught with the high coloring, that ignorance, terror and exaggera- 
tion are apt to indulge.” Mrs. Callcott begs to observe, that Mr. 
Parish was not then in Chile, nor was Don Camillo near the coast, 
but fully occupied with his business as secretary to one of the parties 
then engaged in civil war: they could therefore only have had hear- 
say evidence to place against the statements of Mrs. Callcott, foun- 
ded upon her own personal observations. 
As to ignorance of the science of Geology, Mrs. Callcott confess- 
es it: and, perhaps, that circumstance, and her consequent indiffer- 
ence to all theories connected with it, render her unbiassed testimo- 
ny of the more value. Terror she cannot plead in extenuation of 
mis-statement ; for she did not, she could not, give way to personal 
fear on that occasion, because she had with her an invalid relation, 
under peculiar circumstances, and her whole attention was given to 
him. She did not lose her presence of mind for a single moment ; 
nor her power of thinking and acting for others. Mrs. Callcott is 
not apt to exaggerate. 
Again, at the same page of his address, Mr. Greenough allows 
that a person, whom he calls Don Onofri Bunster, was walking the 
beach, and making observations at the moment of the great shock, 
at the very time when the great swell of the sea occurred, which 
threatened to overwhelm the town, and when no man was likely to 
return alive from such a walk. Yet, Mr. Greenough denies to Mrs. 
Callcott sufficient composure of mind to observe, several hours af- 
terwards, what had taken place during the night! 
Mr. Bunster, who kept a shop, or store, in Valparaiso, was real- 
ly prevented from going up the hill, as Mr. Greenough states. It 
happened that that portion of the granite rock, which is the substra- 
tum of the red clay or earth which forms the most of the cliffs of the 
heights of Valparaiso, running immediately under the government 
house, being disturbed, and visibly cracked, by the great shock, the 
clay or earth of the low cliff on which the house was built, slipped 
off on both sides, and, nearly filling up the ravines or quebradas on 
each side, carried with it the houses formerly on the cliff, and all 
