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artillery. These phenomena have also been observed, previous 
to great earthquakes, in other parts of the world. 
A short time after the earthquakes, more than two thousand of 
the inhabitants of Lima died of the epidemic scarlet fever, pleu- 
ritic pains, and liver complaints ; the same diseases which were ex- 
perienced after the earthquake of sixteen hundred and eighty-seven. 
At the same hour that the earthquake was felt in Lima, it was 
experienced in Callao ; overwhelming, consuming, and destroy- 
ing every thing within its reach. There was not an edifice left 
in the place — not a street that was not filled by the relics of the 
ruin ! Many of the walls and porticoes seemed to resist the first 
movements of the earth ; but they could not withstand the over- 
whelming force of the ocean, which came pouring in with mad- 
dening fury, piled up in mountainous waves, and destroying every 
thing which the earthquake had spared ! Recoiling, as if to 
gather new power, it again rushed forward, still more elevated, 
from the increased vibrations of the earth, overthrowing castel- 
lated walls and turrets, which wealth in its pride had erected ; 
tearing them up from their deep foundations, and burying them 
in the dark caverns beneath, leaving scarce a mournful record to 
show that here was once a garrison of soldiers ! ■ 
Of four thousand eight hundred inhabitants who resided in 
Callao, the lives of little more than two hundred were spared. Of 
these, twenty-two were saved on the bastion of a rampart, which 
was formerly called the strength of Santa Cruz. Of the rest, 
some were, thrown, upon the Island of San Lorenzo, situated two 
leagues from the castle of Callao ; others on different beaches 
and forts ! 
At the same time the sea overwhelmed Callao, it destroyed 
many other places on the coast. Pisco suffered again, in like 
manner as it had done in the previous great earthquake, which 
happened on the twentieth October, sixteen hundred and eighty- 
seven ; and was thus alluded to by the poet : — 
" El man furioso salle, 
Sin que el impulse sufra," &c. 
The sea also covered the. road called Perdices, and destroyed 
every thing found in it, overwhelming in its waves whole cargoes, 
