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in Jamaica , Lima in Lent, MeJJina in Sicily, foe. 
And here , we find plainly, that the Shock went 
along the River, both upwards and downwards, far- 
ther than by Land j like the Bottle of Water held 
in the Hand, in electrical Experiments. 
We argue the fame from the Sicknefles, Pains 
in the Joints and Back, rheumatic, hyfteric, nervous 
Cafes, Hcad-ach, Colics, and the like ; which 
many People, efpecially of the weaker Conftitutions, 
felt, for more than one Day after: Juft as after 
Electrification. 
But from hence it is highly worthy of Remark, 
that the Finger of Providence is notorioufiy 
difcernible herein ; 
of Him, 
Who guides the Thunder, and dir eels the Storm. 
Tho’ it operates by natural Caufes, yet it is that 
which gives them their Deftination. For, tho' the 
Coafts of the Sea are molt liable to, and fufceptiblc 
of this mighty Shock, which we call an Earth- 
quake ; yet the chaftening Rod is directed to 
Towns and Cities , where are Inhabitants, the Ob- 
jects of its Monition j not to bare Cliffs , and an 
uninhabited Beach. And there cannot be a more 
direct Proof, that Earthquakes are divine Judgments, 
than this Obfervation : For, in all antient Hiftory, 
Earthquakes are ever found in great Cities. A. CD. 
1 7, no lefs than 12 flourifhing Cities in Afia minor 
were deftroy’d in one Night. In A. D. 14 f6. at 
Naples , 40,000 People perifhed by an Earthquake. 
In 1 53 1 . in the City of Lisbon, 1400 Houfes were 
thrown down. 
We 
