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otiier buildings of the place ; fo that whatever had 

 efcaped the firil, was now totally overwhelmed by 

 thole terrible mountains of waves •, and nothing re- 

 mained except a piece of the wall of the fort of Santa 

 Cruz, as a memorial of this terrible devaftation. There 

 were then twenty-three fliips and velTels, great and 

 fm.all, in the harbour, of which nineteen were abfo- 

 lutely funk, and the other four, among which was a 

 frigate called St. Fermin, carried by the force of the 

 waves to a great diftance up the country. 



This terrible inundation extended to other ports 

 on the coaft, as Cavallos and Guanape ; and the 

 towns of Chancay, Guaura, and the valleys della Ba- 

 ranca, Sape, and Pativika, underwent the fame fate 

 as the city of Lima. The number of perfons who 

 perifhed in the ruin of that city, before the 31ft of 

 the fame month of October, according to the bodies^ 

 found, amounted to 1300 v befides the maimed and 

 v^ounded, many of which lived only a fhort time in: 

 torture. At Callao, where the number of inhabitants 

 amounted to about 4000 two hundred only efcaped 

 and twenty-two of thefe by mxans of the above- 

 mentioned fragment of a wall. 



According to an account fent to Lima after this^ 

 accident, a volcano in Lucanas burft forth the farne 

 night, and ejedted fuch quantities of water, that the 

 whole country was overEowed and in the mountain 

 near Patas, called Converfiones de Caxamarquilla,, 

 three other volcanos burfb, difcharging frightful tor- 

 rents of water ; like that of CarguayrafTo, mentioned ^ 

 in the firft Vol. of this V7ork. 



Some days before this deplorable event, fubterra- 

 neous noifes were heard at Lima, fomxtimes refem- 

 bling the bellowing of oxen, and at others the 

 difcharges of artillery. And even after the earth- 

 quake they v/ere ftill heard during the filence of the 

 night ; a convincing proof that the inflammable 



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