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in acknov/ledgement of its deliverance, a feflival, 

 called Nueftra Senora del Milagro, is annually cele- 

 brated on that day. 



5. In the year 1655, on the 3d of November, 

 the moft {lately edifices, and a great number o£ 

 houfes, were thrown down by an earthquake ; the in- 

 habitants fied into the country, and remained there 

 feveral days, to avoid the danger they were threat- 

 ened with in the city. 



6. On the 17th of June 1678, another earthquake 

 happened, by which feveral houfcs were deilroyed, and 

 the churches confiderably damaged. 



7. One of the moft dreadful of which w-e have any 

 account, was that of the 20th of Odober, 1687. 

 It began at four in the morning, with the deftruc- 

 tion or feveral publick edifices and houfcs, vv^ here by 

 great numbers of perfons perifhed ; but this was 

 little more than a prefage of what was to follow, 

 and preferved the greateft part of the inhabitants from 

 being buried under the ruins of the city. The fhock 

 was repeated at fix in the morning with fuch impe- 

 tuous concufiions, that whatever had withftood the 

 firft, was now laid in ruins-, and the inhabitants 

 thought themfelves very fortunate in being only fpec- 

 tators of the general devaftation from the ftreets and 

 fquares, to which they have direded their flight on 

 the firft warning. During this fecond concuflioo 

 the fea retired confiderably from its bounds, and re- 

 turning in mountainous waves, totally overwhelmed 

 Callao, and the neighbouring parts, together witli 

 the miferable inhabitants. 



8. On the 29th of September, 1697, this place 

 was vifired by another terrible earthquake. 



■9. On the 14th of July, 1699, a great number of 

 houfes were deftroyed by another conculTion. 

 10. The 6th of February, 1716, a like difafter. 

 IK On the 8th of January, 1725, another. 

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