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fatal to Portugal, we felt Brigue feveral times fhaken, 
and particularly on that very day. And, what is won- 
derful, from that time, efpeciallyin the night, the walls 
were perceived by many perfons to tremble ; for which 
reafon they juftly apprehended hill greater fhocks of 
an Earthquake. On the pth of December, which 
was a clear day without wind, about two in the 
afternoon, the earth at firft made a great noife, and 
feemed, as it were, to give a fignal for immediately 
retiring. This was, not long after, followed by re- 
peated, but flight motions. At a quarter after two, the 
earth was again fhaken, and a much louder noife 
heard : at lad, a little before half an hour after two, 
all Valais feemed upon the point of deftrudtion ; for 
the earth began not only to tremble, but to fend forth 
a horrible noife, and to drake all the buildings with 
fo violent a motion in thefpace of two pater nofters 
that the houfes inclined on each fide alternately, and 
rocked like a cradle : almolb all the chimnies were 
thrown down ; all the churches differed very great 
damage ; the towers gaped ; a confiderable number 
of walls fell down j and ftones of all fizes poured 
down from all the buildings, fo that no houfe at 
Brigue efcaped fome injury. It. was a fingular in- 
ftance of the goodnefs of God, that when all the in- 
habitants fled amidft the dreadful fhowers of flones 
falling every where, not one of them was hurt. 
The whole neighbourhood differed the fame ca- 
lamity, efpecially Gliia and Natria. In the latter, 
the roof of the parifh church fell at the fame mo- 
ment ; and at Glifa, the large church, and efpecially 
the tower, were greatly damaged. For a great part 
of the wall of the tower being removed out of its 
