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every body feems at eafe, and things go on in their 
ufual channel. 
Mr. Salvador has received many other letters, which 
feverally confirm thefe particulars. 
XXV 7 II. Another Account of the fame Earth- 
quake : In a Letter from Mr. Molloy, 
dated there April 3, 176 1, to Keane 
Fitzgerald, EJ'q\ F. R. S. 
Read April 23, the 3 1 fb ult. at twelve o’clock, 
V^/ we had a mold dreadful violent 
fhock of an earthquake, that held con flan t for five 
minutes, as near as I can judge. I was up two pair 
of flairs, at a friend’s houfe, when it began, and ex- 
pended to have been buried in the ruins. The fhock, 
as it appeared to me, feemed to fpring from the 
bowels of the earth, and the motion to be diredly 
up and down. It is the general opinion, that if it 
had run from wefl to eafl, or from any quarter of 
the globe to the other, as the great one the firfl of 
November 1755 did, there would not have been a 
houfe left Handing in this unfortunate place, as all 
the gentlemen that refide here fay, it was more fevere 
and conflant for the time than the former. Many 
buildings have tumbled down, but few people were 
killed $ fome have died through fear, and about 
270 felons, in the confufion it occafioned, got out 
of gaol, who, it is feared, will commit great ex- 
ceffes, before they are taken again. Orders were 
iffued by S. J. de Carvalho, that, on pain of death, no 
perfon 
