the . South- Sea. 21 1 



yearly revived there, on the 19th of October, by publkk 

 Prayers. If we may believe the publick Report, it was 

 foretold by a Religious Man of the Order of the Mcrce- 

 naYian$ y who feveral Days before it, ran along the Streets 

 like another Jonm, crying, Do Penance. In Ihort, the 

 Day came when it quaked after fo extraordinary a manner, 

 that every half Quarter of an Hour, it gave horrid Shocks^ 

 fo that they reckoned above 200 in lefs than 24 Hours. 



As dreadful as that Earthquake appears, there happened ^othsr. 

 one ftill more unparaileli'd in the Year 1692, in the Pro- 

 vince of Qiiiio y at the Towns of Ambata, Latacunga and 

 Riobamba. This fhook the Earth in fuch manner, that it 

 tore off great Pieces of it, which were feen to run entire 

 three or four Leagues from the Place where they had been 

 before, and thus to remove whole Fields, with the Trees 

 and Houfes Handing > which occafion'd the moft extraor- 

 dinary Law-Suits that were ever heard of, brought to 

 Lima, to decide to whom thofe Eftates belong'dj he on 

 one fide alledging, they are within my Jurifdi&ion or 

 Lordfliip y and the other pleading, I am upon my own 

 Land, 



The like had happen'd in the Year 158*4 near Chuquiago, A^in. 

 or La Paz, as Acofia 1. 3. c. 27. reports. The Borough 

 called Angoango, inhabited by Indians^ on a fudden fell to 

 Ruin, and the Earth ran and fpread over the Country, for 

 the Space of a League and a half, as if it had been Water, 

 or melted Wax, in fuch manner that it ftopp'd and fill'd 

 up a Lake, and fo continued fpread over that Country, 

 Pfalm 9 7. 7 he Hills melted like Wax at the Prefence of the 

 Lord. 



A much more amazing Earthquake happenM in Canada Amthtr.\ 

 which began on the 5th of February 1663, ^nd continued 

 till July the fame Year, occafioning incredible Alterations 

 on the Surface of the Earth for above 400 Leagues through 

 the Country. See the Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of 

 the Incarnation^ an Urfuline Nun in New France, printed 

 at Paris 1677. 



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