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An Extra^ of a Letter of Father Alvarez de 
Toledo a Franclfcan Fri^r, Dated Od. 
1687. fromLhmj giving fome Particulars 
of an Earthquake rphich happened there the 
aoth of that Month. 
ON Monday, the xoth of OSiok (JV. 5.) at Four of 
the Clock in the Morning, came a horrible Eartl> 
quake and Noife, with which fome Houfts fell, and 
fome were killed under thfcir Ruines. 
At Five of the Clock in the fame Morning was ano- 
ther Shake with the fame Noife. 
At Six of the Clock in the aforefaid Morning, when 
we thought we had been all in Safety, came another 
Shake with great Fury and rufliing Noife ; the Sea with 
great Bellowings came beyond it's Bouhds^ the Bells rung 
of themfelves, and the Deftruiflion was fo great, that no 
Building flood: The Noife was fuch, that thofe in 
the Fields aflure us, that the Cattle were in great Afto- 
nifhment. Callao ^ tanete^ Pifco , Chancay , and Los 
ChoriSos, are all ruined. There are more than 5000 
dead Bodies found, and they find more daily, fo that 
we know not their number. 
II. 
The Inhabitants of Jamaica exped an Earthquake 
every Year, Some of them are of Opinion, that 
they follow their great Rains. One of them happened 
on Sunday the 19th of Fehmary, 1683. about Eight in 
the Morning, I found in a Chamber one Story high the 
Cabinets, and feveral other Moveables on the Floor to 
reel, as if People had raifed the Foundations of the 
Houfe. I look'd out at a Window to fee what was the 
matter, and found that the Pigeons and other Birds in an 
Aviary hard by were on their Wings in a great Afto- 
N nifliment, 
