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may be true, as feme chafms on the dry land are 
now almoft clofed up, and others intirely fo. 
V articular Obfervations. 
In the afternoon of the gift of Odober, I ob- 
ferved, that the water of a fountain was greatly de- 
creafed : on the morning of the ift of November it 
ran very muddy, and after the earthquake it returned 
to its ufual ftate, both in quantity and clearnefs. 
Some fountains, after the earthquake, ran muddy, 
fome decreafed, others increafed, others were dried 
up ; and one, that with the earthquake was dried 
up intirely, returned two days after to its ufual ftate. 
In fome places where there was no water, fprings 
burft forth, which continued to run. On the fpot 
of Varge, and river of Macaas, at the time of the 
earthquake, many fprings of water burft forth, and 
fome fpouted to the height of 25 palms throw- 
ing up hand of various colours, which remained on 
the ground. On the hills, numbers of rocks were 
fplit, and there were feveral rents in the ground, 
but none confiderable. On the coaft, pieces of rock 
fell, fome of them very large, and inthefea fundry 
rocks were broken : the moft noted are thofe called 
by the failors Sarithoes, or Biturecras, of which 
one was only broken off the fummit, the other 
2fll to pieces. 
B. Between thefe rocks and the main, the coaft- 
ing veffels failed at low water ; and now you may 
* The Portuguefe paloj is about Dine inches. 
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