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counliy in its flood. This, Iio\ve\'er, ".‘.[il*! 
entirely effected, by the first swell of tljc waves; ‘ j'l 
sea, retiring still farther, returned with greater inif'-'^' 
aiid covered not only the buildings, but also the l»i‘l , jjr 
of the fortress j so that what had even escaped 
inundation, was totally overwhelmed by these i 
mountaiiious wave.s. Of twenty-three ships, 
of light burden, then in the h.arbour, nineteen 1|‘ 
and the four otlier.s, among which was a friga;e, f f , 
San Fianin, were carried by the force of the 
considerable distance np the country. This leriah**^ , |,)' 
dation ex.tended, as well as the earthquake, to eth^j.,,,. | 
of the coast, and several towns under\r-ent the 
Tama. The number of persons who perished in that r' 
within two day.s after the earilKprake commenced) [,;> 
<'stitnate of the bodies fuuird, amounted to tbittee** i,/ 
dred, beside the wounded and maimed, many 
survived tiieir tortures but a short lime. 
d'he earthquake, of J.\r.iAic.\, in i6Q2, was 
most drctidful history has had to record. lu the 
two minutes it destroyed the town of Port lloyalj 
the hou.-;es in a gulf forty fathoms deep. It was 'j 
with a hollow rumbling noise, like that of thvu'®‘'^||, 
k'.ss than a minute, the greater part of the houses ^ 
.side of tlie streets, were, with their iuhabitants. 
nealh the water, while those on the other side u'Ct^ j.,, ' 
into heaps, the sandy soil on which they were 
like the waves of tlie sea, and suddenly 
kTie water of the wells j't'l 
them on its subsidence. 
charged with a most r ehemont agitation ; and 
equally turbulent, bursting its mounds, and delugit’s.j.ff f 
fissures in the cartlt ' 
t.’vcr came in its way. 
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nued for a considerable time. Several hundreds 
openings were to be seen at the same moment : , 
them the wretched inliabitants were swallowed 
in others, tlie earth suddenly closing, caught 
middle, and thus crushed them to death. Oihei'®" " 
still more dreadful, swallowed up 
others, again, spouted up cataracts of water. 
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