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fure you is Truth ; and if I had Time, could give an 
Account of a great many more of the like. 
VL 
What you defire concerning our Earthquake in Ja- 
maica^ I will anfwer as near as I can to what I law and 
heard Port-Royal being the place where I lived, I (hall 
begin with what I met v/ith there, OnTuefday the 7th of 
jHneyi69z. betwixt Eleven and Twelve at Noon, I being 
at a Tavern, we felt the Houft (hake, and faw the Bricks 
begin to rife in the Floor, and at the fame inftant heard 
one in the Street cry, An Earthquake. Immediately we 
run out of the Houfe, where we (aw all People wath lifc 
ed up Hands begging God s A/Iiftance. We continued 
running up the Street, whiift on either fide us, we faw 
the Houfes, fome fwallowed up, others thrown on 
Heaps the Sand in the Street rife like the Waves of the 
Sea ; lifting up all Perfons that ftood upon it, and im- 
mediately dropping down into Pits and at the fame 
Inftant a Flood of Water breaking in, and rowling thofe 
poor Souls over and over ; fome catching hold of Beams 
and Rafters of Houfes,others were found in the Sand that 
appeared when the Water was drained away, w^ith their 
Legs and Arms out; we beholding this difmal Sight. 
The fmall piece of Ground whereon Sixteen or Eighteen 
of us fl:ood (praifed be God) did not fink. As foon as 
the violent Shake was over, every Man was defirous to 
know if any part of his Family were left alive. I en- 
deavoured to go towards my Houfe upon the Ruines of 
the Houfes that were floating upon the Water, but could 
not : At length I got a Canoa, and row'd up the great 
Sea fide towards my Houfe, where I faw feveral Men 
and Women floating upon the Wreck out to Sea ; and 
as many of them as I could I took into the Boat, and ftill 
row'd on till I came where I thought my Houfe had ftood, 
but could not hear of neither my Wife nor Family; Co 
'^returned again to that little part remaining above Water. 
