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liave very frequently in JamaicA, often killing Cattle in | 
the Fields. Mr. Henr) Lord, who lives at Dry-Riv:r, i 
had two Sons (big Boys) ftruck dead with Lightning, 1 
in 1716 , without any Wounds or /Appearance of Hurt J 
found about them. And as thefe Claps are much louder ”1 
and Wronger than any I ever heard in Europe, fo are our 1 
Showers of Rain, pouring down in a moR violent man- I 
ner. We have Lightning all the Year round, but oar I 
great Rains are in the Months of May, ^u^u/l, and 0c~ |j 
tokr. I knew May for two or three Years without Rain, 3 
which was lookt upon as a great TVonder; and we paid 
dear for it in our Indigo; for a Catcerpillar appear’d and ^ 
wove a fine Silk about the Indigo-Flant, and deftroy’d it ® 
all, hurting nothing elle. May-Rzins us’d to deftroy 
thefe Worms. Auguft and OUohernQSQx: go out without a ^ 
Flood, we having then univerfal Rains, all over the Ifiand, jE 
coming from the Sea : For we have often Rains in the 
Mountains from the Clouds lodging there, when we have jl 
none in the Lowlands. ™ 
Our Ifiand is full of Mines, and, if fearch’d into, I j' ' 
queflion not but very rich. We are very fubjed to Earth- ' 
quakes, feveral happening every Year, efpecially after 
great Rains, which fill up all our great Cracks in theSur. ^ 
face of the Earth : For in a very dry Time, we have them 4 
fo very large, deep, and gaping fo open and wide, that 4 
it is dangerous to ride over Tome Parts of the Savannaes, 
for fear a Horfe Ihould get his legs into them. Our 
Earthquakes make a Nolle or Rumbling in the Earth, %: 
before we feel the Shake ; and feem to run fwiftly to 
the Wellward. This is all I can inform you of this kind 
at prefent, relating to the Ifiand of Jamaica, being ever • { 
ready to fliew how much I am, &c. 
Bmy 'BarhawJ: 
Decemb. 1 9 . 
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