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24th February 1747 ( f ^ e t * me w ^ en the account of 
them was fcnt from thence), there had been num- 
bered no lefs than 45 1 (hocks, many of them littie in- 
ferior to the fin ft great one, which deftroyed that city. 
8. The returns of earthquakes alfo, in the fame 
places, at larger diftances of time, are confirmed by 
all hiftory. Conftantinople, and many parts of Afia 
Minor, have fuffered by them, in many different 
ages : Sicily has been fubjedt to them, as far back as 
the remains even of fabulous hiftory can inform us 
of: Llfbon did not feel the effects of them for the 
firft time in 1 755 : Jamaica has frequently been 
troubled with them, fince the Englifh firft fettled 
there ; and the Spaniards, who were there before, 
ufed to build their houfes of wood, and only one 
ftory high, for fear of them : * Lima, Callao, and 
the parts adjacent, were almoft totally deftroyed by 
them twice, within the compafs of about fixty years, 
fcarce any building being left Handing, and the latter 
being both times overflowed by the fea : nor were 
thefe the only inftances of the like kind, which have 
happened there; for, from the year 1 58 2 to 1746, 
they have had no lefs than fixteen very violent earth- 
quakes, befides an infinity of lefs confiderable ones ; 
and the Spaniards, at their firft fettling there, were 
told by the old inhabitants, when they law them 
building high houfes, that they were building their 
own lepulchres 4-. 
, p. Secondly , 
* See the place above-quoted. 
f What is here (aid, is taken from d’UHoa’s Voyage to Peru, 
the Hiftory and Philofophy of Earthquakes, the fhilof. Tianf. &c. 
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