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'the fame kind, at eleven o’clock fifty minutes; 
twelve o’clock thirty minutes ; one o’clock ten mi- 
nutes ; and one o’clock fifty minutes. The tides con- 
tinued, with fome intervals, till the evening, but lef- 
'feriing. They have ruin’d loo toifes of the rampart; 
part of which of three toifes length, and of their 
intire thicknefs, .were carried by the torrent above 
■fifty paces. 
The fhips were expofed to eminent danger ; the 
greatefi: part of them were 'driven afloat; but mofi; 
of them fortunately were faved, fome by veering their 
cables, others by fecuring themfelves by new anchors ; 
fo that only one Swedifh fhip and fome boats were 
loft. A great number of perfons periftied on the 
caufey, which leads to the ille of Lefu^ Seville has 
been greatly damaged. St. Lucar and Cheres have 
likewife fuffered much ; and Conel is faid to be 
intirely deftroyed. , , ' r ' 
■ ; ..LETTER XVI. 
An Account of the Earthquakes^ that happened in Bar- 
bary, inclofed in a Letter from General Fowke, 
Governor^ of Gibraltar, to the Right Honourable 
. Henry Fox,.^£/y; one of his Maje/lfs principal 
•Secretaries of State-. Communicated by the Right 
Honourable Philip Lord Vifcdunt Royfton, F. R. S. 
f 
; Tetuan. 
Read March 4, | HE earthquake began the ift of 
1756- . £ November, at ten in the morn- 
.. ing, and laft^ between feven and eight minutes ; 
during which fpace the fhock was repeated ‘three 
' different 
