flaciding, (hook down and fliatter'd the Houfes in Co 
violent a manner, .that at our landing, it look'd more 
like a Heap of Rubbifh, than any thing elfe, there being 
(I believe) fcarce one Houfe in ten left (landing, and 
thofe fo crackt and ftiatter'd, that but few of them were 
fir, or thought fafe to live in, and fland now empty. 
All thofe Streets which were next the Water, towards 
the Harbour-fide, where there were excellent Wharfs, 
clo(e to which Ships of 700 Tunn might lie and deliver 
their Loading, where were the beft Store-houfes and 
Conveniences for Merchants, where were brave (lately 
Buildings, where the Chief Men of the Place liv'd, and 
which were in all refpefts the principal parts of Port- 
Royaly now lie in Four, Six, or Eight Fathom Water. 
That part which is now (landing, is part of the end of 
that Neck of Land which runs into the Sea, and makes 
this Harbour ( at the Extremity of which (lands the 
Fort, not (hook down, but much (hattcr'd by the 
Earthquake, and is now a perfeft Ifland ; the whole 
Neck of Land from the Port of Port-Royal now (land- 
ing, to the Pallifadoes, or other end of Port-Royal to- 
wards the Land, (which is above a quarter of a Mile) 
being quite difcontinued and loft in the Earthquake ; and 
is now alfo, with all the Houfes that (lood very thick 
thereon, quite under Water, all which part or Neck of 
Land is difcontinue^, (as alfo all the other parts of this 
place which funk) were, for what I can learn, nothing 
but perfect: Sand, and by People driving down Timber 
and Wharfing, ^c, were by lirtle and iktlQ gained m 
timeout of the Sea, which now has at^once recovered 
ail again whereby we may (ee how dafigerous it is 
to contend with a powerful Enemy. 
r have talk t with a few Men that came hither with 
Venahks^ when he Conquered this Place for Cromwel^ 
and particularly with one Capt. Halsy (for whom I hap- 
pened to have a Letter from London) who all fay, that 
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