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have no place to fly to, unlefe it js aboard the ,fhips» 
which are at a dillance. Thank God it is no \yorfe. 
Adieu : believe me ever yours. 
N. B. The day of the earthquake the weather was 
as clear and ferene as the finefl: fumni.er-day in 
England. 
Benjamin Bewkke. 
LETTER XV. 
Account of the Earthquake at Cadiz, m a Let- 
ter to the Spanilh AmbaJJ'ador at the Hague, from 
Doa Antonio d’Ulloa, P. R. S* 
Read Dec. N the firfl: of this ^ month [J^oyera- 
» 7 > 5 - ber] we had here an earthquake, 
the violence of which was not inferior to that, jwhich 
fwallowed up Lima and Callao, in Peru, towards the 
end of Odtober 1746. It happened in very fine 
weather, at three minutes after nifie in the morning, 
and continued five minutes, and confequently near 
twice as long as that of Pern, the duration of which 
was only three minutes. Jf every thing was not de- 
Ikoyed here, it feems particularly owing to the fo- 
lidity of the buildings. The inhabitants had fcarce 
begun to recover from their firfl: -terrorj, when they 
faw themfelves plunged into new alarms. At ten 
minutes after eleven they faw rolling towards the 
city a tide of tlie ^ea, yvhich paflTed over |the para- 
pet uffixty feet .above the, ordinary level of the wa- 
ter. At thirty luinutes after .eleven eCaqie , a fecond 
tidjij and thpfe two ,were followed, by fppr others of 
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