182 CONNEXION OF EARTHaUAKKS WITH VOlC 
procession ; and many churches, and the principal 
at Caraccas, being thrown down, there was a consiy 
number of soldiers killed, and many thousand P ‘[ji* 
— -iiti*'. ■ 
of soldiers killed, 
crushed under their ruins. 
The 
arms and 
if, 
destined for the defence of the country were 
similar manner ; and what was worse, an uncon<lf* 
enemy to the independence of Venezuela seemed 
its head from among the ruins — that religious pf®! 
which the earthquake inspired. ,/ 
In an era less remarkable, a mere convulsion I**/ 
would have had no influence on a new governnip’’^’j^i? 
notwithstanding die prosperity Venezuela then enjo}'® |))f 
seeds of discontent had fallen on one class of the f®' |,(* 
nity. The principles which formed the basis ot 
constitution were democratical, and it liad been 
to deprive the clergy of some of their privileges, ’j,/ 
course created enmity in their minds to the pre.sent g® p(/ 
meut. Immediately after the earthquake, the 
claimed, that the Almighty couderaned the reyt>^^^|,(l 
they denounced liis wrath on all who favoured it > ^ ii» 
counter-revolution, attended by great bloodshed, 
unhappy consequence. 
CONNEXION OF EARTHQUAKES 
VOLCANOES. 
Wl' 
til 
ISLAND OF JAVA. 
The connexion of earthquakes with volcanoes 
already noticed ; and a remarkable instance of j-jji'* 
reiice of this nature is recorded in Ruffles' Histoiy 
PapanJayaiig was formerly one of the largest voR‘d’ (i* 
that island ; but in the month of A.ugust, 1 77 
greatest part of it was, after a short but severe coiol’'’ ^ 
swallowed up by a dreadful convulsion of the eafll’' j/' 
event was preceded by an uncommonly luminous f. 
by which the mountain was completely envelopf | f 
which so terrified the inhabitants dwelling at the 
on its declivities, that they betook themselves 
Before they could all save themselves, however, tli® J 
tain began to give way, and the greater part of ib ® 
