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tended with any bad confequences in our part of 
the ifland ; though we hear, that at Mechico and 
Porto da Cruz it did confiderable damage ; from, 
the latter of which places it carried off near 200 
pipes of wine, and leveral caldeoras [ftills for di- 
ffilling brandy], and when the fea recoiled, it was 
fo far from its ufual limits, as to difcover the foun- 
dation of rocks, that never before had been feen, 
and which lay as far diftant from the (here as our 
Ilheo *, 
JV. B. The port, where all the bufinefs is done, is 
called Funchal, and lies in the fouth part of 
the ifland. Mechico is a bay, with a village 
four leagues to the eaflward. Porto da Cruz is 
the north-eafl;ermofl: part of the ifland, about 
lix leagues diftant from Funchal. The diftance 
referred to from the Ihore to the Ilheo, fome- 
thing more than 200 yards. 
LETTER XIX. 
An Account of the late Earthquakes of Novem. i, 
and 9, 1755? as felt at Neufchatel in Swifferland, 
m a Letter from Monf. De Vautravers, F. R. S, 
to Thomas Birch, D. D. Seer. R. S. 
Neufchatel, Decern, 13, 1755. 
Head Jan. 22 , H E dreadful earthquake of the i ft 
*75*^- Jl^ of November laft has been per- 
ceived even in this country, though very faintly. It 
turned fome of our rivers on a hidden muddy, with- 
* A rock whereop a caAle is built. 
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