Sibly by a settling down, first on one side, and then 
on another, that is by a swaying from the right hand 
to the left, and from the left to the right. It isnow 
within a few days, thirteen years ago, since the city 
of Cape Haitien was overturned, and from three to 
four thousand of its inhabitants buried under the 
fall of their hauses. The whole of the north of St. 
Domingo was convulsed. Large fissures sent out 
sulphureous vapours, and bituminous waters. The — 
Citadel of the Ferrier, cresting a mountain above 
the clouds, was half of it precipitated down the cliffs 
a couple of thousand feet into the vale below. In 
1852 the city of St. Jago de Cuba was one third of 
it destroyed, and the earth continued to be rent and 
torn for weeks after; and we saw during these shocks, 
the river Cobre at Spanish Town, calm flowing of a 
Sudden in its upward channel, while it increased its 
velocity in its downward channel to the sea. 
The violence which the island suffered during the 
earthquake that destroyed Port Royal, is related 
with too much distinct circumstantiality to be reject- 
ed as an overcharged picture. The ground, we are 
told, swelled and heaved like a rolling sea; the earth 
was traversed by numerous cracks two or three 
hundred of which were seen opening and then closing 
rapidly again. People were swallowed up in the 
rents; some the earth caught by the middle and 
squeezed to death ; and others after being engulphed 
were cast up again with quantities of water. The 
large store-houses on the harbour side subsided so as 
to be submerged from twenty-four to forty-eight feet ; 
the mast heads of the vessels stood among the walls 
