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mlng to make Refiflaoce againft fo ftrong an Eiiemy^ 
they had fared the worfe for it ; whkh during the time 
of the firft great Shake, and asToog as the great Shakes 
continued, which was above two Months after the firft 
Shake (during which time the Shakes carae very ftroog 
and thick, fometimes twoor three in an Hour} bellow- 
ed forth prodigious, loud, terrible Noifes and Eccho- 
ings, as it' they were fenfible of thofe dreadful Coavul- 
fions, which foraged within the^ir Bowels, and info vi- 
olent a manner tore and rent them afunder, as if they 
complained of the Cruelties of that great ( I believe 
I may fay greatefl ) Enemy to Nature ; threatning 
to caft this Ifland into it's firft Chaos, orat leallin^ 
to a new Model or Shape, different from that which 
Nature firft gave it ; breaking one Mountain, and there- - 
of making two or three and joining two MouotainSj 
and making thereof one, clofiog up the unhappy Val- 
ley betwixt. And at rtf//(?ii?f5 particularly, fbme Fami« 
lies, who lived betwixt two Mountains, were fliut up 
and buried under them. 
Not far from which place part of a Mountain, after 
having made feveral Leaps or Moves, overwhelmed a 
whole Family, and great part of a Plantation^ lying a 
Mile off. And a large high Mountain, near Tcrt-mo- 
ranty near a days Journey over, is faid to be quite fwal- 
lowed up I and io the place where it ftcod there is now 
a great Lake of Four or Five Leagues over. But thofe 
things happened in Lower Mountains : But in the blew 
Mountains, and its nigh Neighbours, from whence came 
thole dreadful Roari»iigs, terrible and amazing to all that 
heard them, may be reafonably fuppofed to be many 
ftrange Alterations of the like Nature: But thofe wild 
Deferc places, being very rarely or never vifited by any 
body, not by Negro's themfelves, we are yet ignorant 
of what happened there ; but the Aftonifhing Noifes . 
that came from thenee, and their miferabie fliatter'd Ap- 
psaraace.. 
