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our boat we could fcarce fee one another ; and it in- 
tirely hid the fun from us for fome time, though as 
fine a morning as ever was, and as warm a fun as is 
with you in the month of July. The wind foon 
difperfed the duft, the fhaking feemed over. In 
about three quarters of an hour we came to the vil- 
lage, where we were called aihore, and met feveral 
gentlemen, who came out of the city on horfe-back, 
but fo frighted, that they did not know what it was : 
we told them what we had feen, and in a quarter of 
an hour after our landing, the village was alarmed 
with another fhake. We got down to our boat, in 
order to get in ; in a moment’s time the river rofe fo 
high, as obliged us to take to our heels, and run for 
our lives, into the fields and high ground, the water 
flowing acrofs the road, which, from the low tide, 
was above a quarter of a mile: the fhips were whirl’d 
about, and feveral people taken into the water, others 
driven alhore, and dafhed to pieces. From the high 
grounds we could fee the fea at about a mile’s di- 
ftance come rulhing in like a torrent, tho’ againft 
wind and tide. A fine new ftone quay in Lifbon, 
where the merchants land their goods, where at that 
time about three thoufand people were got out for 
fafety, was turned bottom upwards, and every one 
loft i nor did fo much as a Angle body appear after- 
wards. It being a holy-day, great numbers of the 
natives being at their devotion in convents and 
churches, whofe large buildings fuffered mofl:, it is 
computed about fixty thoufand fouls, and a hundred 
and odd of the foreigners, and all forts of cattle, 
perhhed. The religious houfes being illuminated with 
wax-lights, and the images drefs’d, by the (hakes 
were 
