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FORMA- of tlie huge flone pillars, for we 



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found feveral on the ground. 

 Perhaps this happened in 174,6, when Lima and Callao fuffered fo 

 much by an earthquake y nor is it uncc 



nmon 



for earthquakes to 

 extend their power a great way. Capt.. Davis, in the year 1687, 

 being 450 leagues fi-om the main ^ of America, felt an earthquake 

 very flrongly, when at the fam.e time its moft violent effeds were 



obferved at Lima and Callao. 



But I will, by no means, infift upon the circumilance, that the 

 iilewas full of woods and forefts in Roggewein's. time, upon the 



f 



mere authority of thefe w^riters, as a corroborative proof of any 



changes,, v/hich I fuppofe this ifle to have undergone y for one of 

 thefe writers at leaft feems to 



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contradid his own report, by telling 



us, that the man who came on board,, had a canoe made of fmall" 



f which was above half a foot in length; which we 



pieces, none o 



found really true, and is very natural, becaufe they have no wood : 



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but unluckily, upon the whole, the hiflory of the giants twelve 

 feet hio-h, deprived him entirely of the charader of a faithful hifto- 



rian 



And, befides this, we found the figures or ftone pillars, all 

 made of a porous tufa, which hadamdergone a violent operation by 



Thefe pillars wxre already exifcing in Roggewein's time ; con- 



fire. 



fequently the ille, its ftones. 



an 



d ftrata, had already undergone the 



violence of fire ; fo that it evidently appears, that whatever changes 



the illand has undergone, mufl have been anterior to Roggewein's 



arrival 



