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veffels, upon Its reftlefs furface, all combined to 

 render the fcene greatly awful ; but too high 

 a degree of the terrific was intermixed with 

 it, for the fpeftator to regard its grandeur and 

 / fublimity in quiet contemplation. — To convey 

 any juft idea of it would require the pen of 

 a Milton, or a Shakefpeare. 



Great and general alarm prevailed, efpe- 

 cially among the lower orders of people ; in 

 whofe minds a fearful aflbciation was excited, 

 which carried them, infinitely, beyond the 

 probable injuries to be expeded. They ran, 

 trembling, into the remoteft corners of their 

 houfes, uttering loud bewailings, and fearing 

 that fome dreadful vifitation of the Almighty 

 was Tipon them, and that He, in his v^rath, 

 was about to punifli their fms, by the de- 

 ftrudion of the town, and its wicked inha- 

 bitants. Nothing was heard but the bowl- 

 ings of the tempeft. In all other refpeds 

 a dread ftillnefs reigned. No living thing 

 was feen upon the ftreets; and all around 

 feemed huflied in the filent paufe of con- 

 fternation. 



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