5'HB GBfiAT BABTHttUAKE OF 1 J 55 . IJ9 
thunder, or the rattling of coaches at a dis- 
'*«gaQ , fieard, and almost at the same instant the earth 
f'** atiH the space of two minutes, the river 
. f ho ^ continued to do so fo' 
commencement it ran with so much 
^>r Or, break a ship's hawser. In some parts the 
k!' seemed to discharge vast quantities ol- 
L^®"d iK ^S'tation of the sea was so great, about a league 
that air was supposed to have been dis- 
Clor? ‘^ere also. ' 
I’S the first shock, which was very terrible, the 
n,' t^‘ty were rocked, as if in a convulsion, and 
affri as-ithin shook and rattled to such a degree, that 
h wf inhabitants ran into the streets, where tlie 
I ’ ®Vcr? *''ttlently seen to heave up. At six o’clock in 
another violent shock was felt. The only 
f ® "'aa the overturning of a few pedestals from 
'”®decav j churches, and die splitting of the walls ot 
houses. 
*^ir?^*^and 1 "^^* entirely swallowed up by the repeated 
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sea-port town about twenty miles south 
Huge pieces ot 
the vast surf of the sea 
' Were a ■' 
^ 'lie same time from the promontory 
^''''"tain the town, which consists of a chain 01 
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jaa^yci VI vuiciCAit vvivuia. 
n tJot, ^ a sea-port of Spain, according to the report 
itiin*'^'^^''° ‘I’Ulloa, the earthquake commenced at 
after nine ki the morning of the first ot 
time Continued five minutes, the weather being 
n in j^tcmarkably fine. It was, he observes, not in- 
w '" 0 , i,j to that which swallowed up Lima and 
f«l ’’'csrly towards the end of October, 1 746, and 
*>0f 'hr ' '^tyice the duration, the latter having been 
'ol'a^'c^trov'^i only. That every thing here was 
'■ '^i'v appears to have been owing to the great 
gr^j I ® buildings. The water of the cisterns, 
... "d. was washed backward and forward, and 
"as 
Itfit ’■ wasueu uacKwaru ana lorwaru, ann 
0p3'C'l '''ith a great froth. The inhabitants, who had 
'*'tj 1 , '"'<1 churches, seeking .safety in the 
they scarcely recovered from their first terror, 
plunged into a new alarm. At ten minutes 
clock, a wave was seen coming from the sea. 
