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86. The fame was obferved at Jamaica likewife. 
In the earthquake that deftroyed Port-Royal in 165)2, 
we are told, that “ more houfes were left (landing 
“ at that town, than in all the ifland befldes. It was 
“ fo violent in other places, that people were violently 
tc thrown down on the ground, where they lay with 
" their legs and arms i'pread out, to prevent being 
“ tumbled about by the incredible motion of the 
“ earth. It fcarce left a planter’s houfe or fugar- 
work (landing all over the illand : I think it left 
<c not a houfe (landing at Paffage fort, and but one 
“ in all Liganee, and none in St. lago, except a few 
“ low houies, built by the wary Spaniards. In Cla- 
€< rendon precindl, the earth gaped, and fpouted up, 
“ with a prodigious force, great quantities of water 
“ into the air, twelve miles from the fea ; and all 
“ over the ifland, there were abundance of openings 
“ of the earth, many thoufands. But in the moun- 
<c tains, are faid to be the mod violent (hakes of allj 
<c and it is a generally received opinion, that the 
“ nearer to the mountains, the greater the (hake 
“ and that the caufe thereof, whatever it is, lies 
“ there. Indeed they are (Irangely torn and rent, 
<c efpecially the blue, and other higheft mountains, 
<e which feem to be the greateft fufferers, and which, 
“ during the time that the great drakes continued, 
“ bellowed out prodigious loud noifes and echo- 
“ ings. 
87. <c Not far from Ya Howes, a mountain, after 
<{ having made feveral moves, overwhelmed a whole 
“ family, and a great part of a plantation, lying a 
“ mile o(fj and a large high mountain near Port- 
“ morant, 
