C 94 ) 
tumbled and thrown about by the almoft incredible Mo- 
tion of the Earth, like that as is the general Comparifon 
of a Great Sea. 
Itfcarce left a Planters Houfe or Sugar-work (landing 
all over the Ifland : I think it left not a Houfe (landing 
at PajJage^Fort, and but one in all Ligartee, and none in 
St. Jago, except a few low Houfes built by the wary 
Spaniards, Acd 'tis not to be doubted, but that had 
there been 5*00, or 5000 Towns in Jamaica, the Earth- 
quake would have ruined every one. In feveral places 
io the Country the Earth gaped prodigioufly : On the 
North-fide, the Planters Houfes, with greateft pare of 
their Plantations, (and the Planters Houles lie not very 
near to one another) were fwallowed, Houfes, People, 
Trees, all up in one Gape ; inftead of which, appeared 
for fome time after a great Pool or Lake of Water, co- 
vering above a'Thoufand Acres, which is fince dryed 
up, and now is nothing but a loo(c Sand, or Gravel, 
without any the leaft Mark or Sign left, whereby one 
may judge, that there ever had ftocd a Tree, Houfe, or 
any thing elft. In Clarendon PrecinS: the Earth gaped 
andfpouted up with a prodigious Force great Quantities 
of Water into the Air, above Twelve Miles from the 
Sea ; and all over the Ifland, there were abundance of 
Gapings, or Openings of the Earth, many thcufands ; 
Marks of many whereof, which upon their clofing they 
left behind them, any one cannot chufe but fee, that 
goes into the Country ; and I have feen feveral. But in 
the Mountains are faid to be the moft violent Shakes of 
all; and 'tis a generally received Opinion, that the near- 
er to the Mountains, the greater the Shake ; and that 
the Caufe thereof, whatever it is, lies th^re. Indeed, 
they are ftrangely torn and rent; infoaiuch that they 
fcem ro be of quite diflerent Shapes now frr m what they 
were, ef[recia!ly the blew, and other highcfl: Mountains, 
who feeoi to be the greatefl SuiFerefS; as if, for prefii- 
ming 
