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compared often ) like a red hot Ov^eo: A!! ihefe dread- 
ful Cir<:umftances occurring at once^ accompaukd a!! the 
while with prodigious looa Noiks from thci Moontaici^', 
occafioned by their railing, S'c. And. alio a hollow Noife 
under Ground, and People running from one place to 
another diftradhd with Fear, looking Jike fo many 
Ghofts, and more rtfembiing tlie Dead than the Living, 
made the whole fo terrible, chat People ihought the De- 
(blutioo of the whole Frame of the World was at haod« 
Indeed 'tis enough to raife melancholy Thoughts in a 
Man now, to fee the Chimneys and Tops of lomeHou- 
fes, and the Mails of Ships and Sloops, which partak'd 
of the fame Fate, appear above Water ; and when one 
firft comes aftiore, to feefb many Heaps of Ruines, ma- 
ny whereof by their largenefs (hew, that once there had 
flood a brave Houfe ; to fee fo many Houfes ihatter^d, 
fome half fallen down, the reftdefolate and without In- 
habitants ; to fee where Floufes have been fwallowed up, 
fome appearing half above ground, and of others the 
Chimneys only ; but above all,to ftand on the Sea-fliore, 
and to look over that part of the Neck of Land, w^hich 
for above a Quarter of a Mile was quite fwallow'd up ; 
therCj where once brave Streets of ftately Houfes flood ^ 
appearing now nothing but Water, except here and there 
a Chimney, and fome parts and pieces of Houfes, ftr- 
ving only to mind us of their fad Misfortune, now Ha- 
bitations for Fifh, contrary to the Intent of the firft 
Builders. 
And tho' Port'Royal w^s fo great a Sufferer by the 
Earthquake, yet it left more Houfes ftanding there, than 
in all the Ifland befides, all over which 'tis faid to rage 
m )rc furioufly, than at Port-Royal ; and this feems to be 
true ; for it was fo violent in other places, that People 
could not keep their Legs, but were violently thrown 
down on the Ground, where they lay on their Faces 
with their Avm^ and Legs fpread out, to prevent being 
tumbled 
