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was ftill in a boiling motion. Evefy thing was 
waflied off the mole. The bay was fiill of barrels, 
and boats, and timber; but no damage was done to 
the Ihipping. The walls have fuffered very much. 
There is a neck of land, that goes from thence to 
the ifland of Leon, open to the ocean oh one fide, 
and to the bay on the other, but very narrow : upon 
this was a very ftrong caufey, which the fea has 
wartied away, as if it was nothing, that in fome 
places you cannot fay, here is the i-oad. It has al- 
moft opened a communication between the fea and 
the bay, which will be a great misfortune to the 
town, as it will fpoil the bay, now become a fmall 
ifland. It is to be hoped the governor will en- 
deavour to prevent that. There \^^re about forty 
or fifty people drowned on the caufey, and a 
great many beafls. Some of the towns about us 
have fuffered a great deal more than we, by the fall- 
ing of houfes and towers, but we have not yet got 
an account of what damage has been done ; and it 
is believed, by the courfe of the earthquake, that it 
did not go to Gibraltar. The whole day the wea- 
ther was extremely ferene and pleafant. Since the 
fea is come to itielf, and nature feems to be reco- 
vered from her convulfions. We had rain, and a 
frefli wind, lb that it is hoped we fhall have no more 
of thefe dreadful calamities, which are fliocking to 
human nature. God grant it may be fo. Thefe 
pha'nomena are very uncommon here. About 2 5- 
years ago there w'as a fmall fliock of an earthquake, 
blit not attended with thefe horrid rifings of the fea. 
Should they be frequent, there would be no living 
here ; the town would even be deflroyed, and we 
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