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- raia has fallen feveral nights paft, yet I don't find 
but the moft delicate tender people fuffer their dif- 
ficulties with as little inconvenience as the mod: 
robufi; and healthy. Every thing is yet with us in the 
iireatelf confufion imao;inable : we have neither 
cloaths nor conveniencies, nor money to fend for 
them to other countries. All Europe is deeply con- 
cerned in the immenfe riches and merchandizes 
that are loft, but none fo much as our own nation, 
who have loft every thing they had here. FewEng- 
lilh lives have been loft in comparifon of other na- 
tions, but great numbers wounded ; and what adds 
to the misfortune is, that wx are three Englifib fur- 
geons, but neither inftruments, bandages, nor dreff- 
ings, to relieve them. Two days after the firft: 
fiiock, orders were given to dig for the bodies, and a 
great many have been taken up, and recovered. It 
is amazing fome inftances of recoveries, that I could 
fend ; in fliort it is amazing, tliat we are not all loft. 
I lodged in a houfe, where there were thirty- eight in- 
habitants, and only four faved. In the city prifpn 
800 were loft, 1200 in the general hofpital, a greats 
number of convents of 400 in each loft; the Spa- 
nifh ambaflador with 35- fervants. It would be too 
tedious to enter into particulars, for I procured this 
paper by mere accident, and I write this on a gar- 
den wall. If you are pleafed to communicate the 
contents to your Society, I beg you will firft pleafe 
to drefs it up in different language. It fortunately 
happened, that the King and the Royal Family were 
at Belime, a palace about a league out of town. 
The palace in town tumbled the firft fhock, but the 
natives infift, that the Inquifition was the firft build- 
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