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vilca. This rain was extraordinary, not relatively to its sta- 

 tion, it being that of the waters in the mountainous territory, 

 but with reference to the quantity, seeing that, although it did 

 not last for the space of two hours, it formed new rivers, de- 

 stroyed various plantations, and desolated several tov/ns. 



On the 2ist, at three in the afternoon, another earthquake 

 was felt in Lima. It was short, and but of small intensity. 

 Its dire6lion was the same with that of the preceding one of 

 the 8th ; and it may thence be inferred that each of them had 

 the same origin. 



On the 4th of July of the above year, at half past five in the 

 morning, Lima was subjedled to another shock of an earth- 

 quake. Its diredlion was N. E. S. W. ; its duration somewhat 

 less than a minute ; and it was of middle intensity. 



On the 14th of 06tober, at seventeen minutes after nine 

 o'clock at night, a violent shock of an earthquake, which 

 lasted five seconds, was felt in the city of Pasco. Its dire6tion 

 was N. E. S. W., and its motion undulatory. The sky was 

 clouded, and very obscure in the N. and N. E. The noise by 

 which it was accompanied was very loud, and resembled the 

 regular discharges of a regiment, or those described in the 

 Literary Memoirs of Great Britain*, as the effe6l of the meteor 

 which appeared there on the night of the 1 9th of March, 1 7 1 8. 

 Earthquakes being very unusual in the above city, this one 

 excited a particular surprize, on account of the singularity of 

 the noise and movement. 



The order of succession both of the one and the other, un- 

 questionably arose from this circumstance, that there being in 

 all those places, immense depositions of pyrites, several mines 

 of that substance, stationed from distance to distance, com- 



* Memoires Litteraires de la Grande Bretagne, t. i. p. 141. 



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