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got under weigh and gone along with violence, striking on rocks as 
they went. Last night, the priests had prophesied a more severe 
shock than the first. | No one went to bed: all that. could huddle 
themselves and goods on board any vessel did so; and the hills were 
covered with groups of houseless creatures, sitting round the fires in 
awful expectation of a mighty visitation. On the night of the nine- 
teenth, during the first great shock, the sea in Valparaiso bay rose 
suddenly, and as suddenly retired in an extraordinary manner, and 
in about a quarter of an hour seemed to recover its equilibrium ; but 
the whole shore is more exposed, and the rocks are four feet higher 
out of the water than before. 
Such are our reports from a distance. Nearer home we have had. 
the same prophecy, concerning a greater shock with an inundation 
to be expected; and the peasants consequently abandoned their 
dwellings, and fled to the hills. The shock did not arrive, and that 
it did not has been attributed to the interposition of Our Lady of 
Quintero. This same Lady of Quintero has a chapel at the old house, 
and her image there has long been an object of peculiar veneration. 
Thither, on the first dreadful night, flocked all the women of the 
neighbourhood, and with shrieks and cries entreated her to come to 
their assistance ; tearing their hair, and calling her by all the endear- 
ing names which the church of Rome permits to the objects of its 
worship. She came not forth, however; and in the morning, when 
the priests were able to force the doors obstructed by the fallen 
rubbish, they found her prostrate, with her head off, and several 
fingers broken. It was not long, however, before she was restored to 
her pristine state, dressed in clean clothes, and placed in the attitude 
of benediction before the door of her shattered fane. 
We had a thick fog to-day, and a cold drizzling rain all the morning 
till noon; when it cleared up, and became still and warm. During many 
of the shocks, I observed wine or water on the table was not agitated 
by a regular tremulous motion, but appeared suddenly thrown up in 
- heaps. On the surface of the water, in one large decanter, I observed 
three such heaps form and suddenly subside, as if dashing against the 
