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place, fell on the roof of the church, and broke It, 
and demolifhed the tide altar under it. 
At Brigue both the church and college of the Je- 
fuits fuffered very confiderably. Part of the roof of 
the former fell down ; and all the walls of die col- 
lege were much cracked. 
It was likewife obferved by fome perfons then in 
the fields, that in fome places the earth opened and 
immediately doled again ; and that water rofe from 
the ground like a jet d'eau feveral feet high : which 
I afcribe to the fecret fprings in the earth. Some 
fountains likewife in the neighbourhood, which had 
run till then, have ceafed ever fince ; and, on the 
other hand, not a few never feen before have ‘•flowed 
from that time. 
At the diftance of about an hour’s journey from 
Brigue there is a mountain, where it hag been 
obferved from the 9th of December to the 26th 
of February, that every day within the twenty-four 
hours the ground finks in, the fpace of a thumb’s 
breadth : and every body is perfuaded, that there is 
water lying there ; but the event mull fiiew, whether 
any great quantity, or capable of doing mifchief, or 
only fome harmlefs fprings. 
With regard to that dreadful 9th of December, al- 
moft every half hour the fhocks of the earthquake 
returned, but without damage; the earth feeming to 
tremble continually under our feet, and as it were 
to groan. From the 9th of December to the 21 ft 
the fhocks were repeated every day, but fill fewer 
and lefs violent. On the 21 ft, at four in the morn- 
ing, Brigue was fo much fliaken, that every body 
was juftly frightened : but no damage was done ex- 
cept the falling down of fome ftones. 
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