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tide rofe forty feet higher in an dnflant than was 
ever known, and as fiiddenly fubfided. Had it not 
fo done, the whole city niuft have been laid under 
water. As foon as we had time for recollection, 
nothing but death was prefent to our imaginations. 
For iff, the apprehenfions of a peftilence from 
the number of dead bodies, and the general con- 
fufion, and want of people to bury them, were 
very alarming : but the fire confumed them, and 
prevented that evil. 
2d. The fears of a famine were very great; for 
Lifbon is the ftore-houfe for corn to all the country, 
for fifty miles round : however, fome of the corn- 
houfes were happily faved, and though the three fuc- 
ceeding days to the earthquake an ounce of bread 
was worth a pound of gold, yet afterwards bread 
became moderately plenty, and we were all happily 
relieved from our ftarving condition. 
The 3d great dread was, that the low villainous part 
of the people would take an advantage of tlie con- 
fufion, and murder and plunder thofe few, who had 
faved any thing. This in fome degree happened ; 
upon which the King gave orders for gallows imme- 
diately to be placed all round the city; and after about 
a hundred executions, amongfl which were fome 
Englifh failors, the evil flopp’d. We are flill in a 
flate of the greatefl uncertainty and confufion, for 
we have had in all twenty- two different fliocks fince 
the firfl, but none fo violent as to bring any houfes 
down in the out-fkirts of the town, that efcaped the 
firfl fliock ; but no body yet ventures to lie in houfes ; 
and though we are in general expofed to the open 
fky^ for want of materials to make tents, and tho’ 
tain. 
