pearancc, appearing half naked, and deprived of their 
(lately Ornaments, large afpiring Trees , and whereas 
they uled to afford a fine green Profpcft, now one half 
part of them at kaft fceming to be wholly deprived of 
their natural Verdure and ornamenral Coverings in fuch 
fort^^that they have not a Leaf to cover their Nakedneft, 
appearing baie and ragged, in fuch poor torn Shapes, that 
furely it will put any thoughtful Man into a contempla- 
tive Poflure,who lliall look at them. There cne may fee, 
where the Tops of great Mountains have fallen, (weep- 
ing down all the Trees, and every thing in its way, 
and making a Path quite from top to bottom ; and otlur 
places, which feem to be peeled, and bare a Mile toge- 
ther ; which vafl pieces of Mountains, with all the 
Trees thereon, falling together in a huddle and confu- 
fed manner, flopped up mofl of the Rivers for about 
2,4 hours ; which afterwards, having found out new 
Paflages, brought down into the Sea, and this Harbour, 
feveral hundred thoufand Tunn of Timber, (as I have 
heard computed from the moft knowing People there) 
which w^ouid fometimes float in the Sea in fuch prod'gi- 
ous Quantities, that they look'd like moving Iflands. I 
have feen feveral of thofe large Trees on this Shoar, all 
deprived of their Bark and Branches, and generally very, 
much torn by the rocky Paflages, through which, by 
the force of a falling Stream, and their own weight, they 
might be fuppofed to be driven. One great Trunk of a 
Tree particularly I have feen amongft the refl-, fo fquee- 
2ed as a Sugar-cane after it has pafs'd the Mill. Some 
are of Opinion that the Mountains are funk a little, and 
are not (b high as they were: Others think the whol^' 
Ifland is funk fomething by the Earthquake. Port Royal 
is faid to bs funk a Foot ; and in many places in Ligayiee 
I have been told, are Wells, which require not fo long a 
Rope to draw Watef* out of them now, as before the 
Earthquake, by two or three Foot which feems a 
