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last judgment can be; and I regret that my anxiety for my patient 
overcoming other feelings, I had not my due portion of that sublime 
terror: but I looked round and I saw it. Amid the noise of the de- 
struction before and around us, I heard the lowings of the cattle 
all the night through; and I heard too the screaming of the sea- 
fowl, which ceased not till morning. There was not a breath of air; 
yet the trees were so agitated, that their topmost branches seemed 
on the point of touching the ground. It was some time ere our 
spirits recovered so as to ask each other what was to be done; but 
we placed Glennie, who had had a severe hemorrhage from the 
lungs instantly, under a tree in an arm-chair. I stood by him while 
Mr. B. entered the house and procured spirits and water, of which 
we all tock a little; and a tent was then pitched for the sick man, 
and we fetched out a sofa and blankets for him. Then I got a man 
to hold a light, and venture with me to the inner rooms to fetch 
medicine. A second and a third shock had by this time taken place, 
but so much less violent than the first, that we had reasonable hopes 
that the worst was over; and-we proceeded through the ruined sit- 
ting-rooms to cross the court where the wall had fallen, and as we 
reached the top of the ruins, another smart shock seemed to roll 
them from under our feet. At length we reached the first door of 
the sleeping apartments; and on entering I saw the furniture dis- 
placed from the walls, but paid little attention to it. In the second 
room, however, the disorder, or rather the displacing, was more 
striking ; and then it seemed to me that there was a regularity in the 
disposal of every thing: this was still more apparent in my own 
room; and after having got the medicines and bedding I went for, 
I observed the furniture in the different rooms, and found that it 
had all been moved in the same direction. This morning I took in 
my compass, and found that direction to be north-west and south- 
east. The night still continued serene; and though the moon went 
down early, the sky was light, and there was a faint aurora australis. 
Having made Glennie lie down in the tent, I put my mattress on the 
ground by him. Mr. Bennet, and the overseer, and the workmen, 
