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 disfigured the face of the country? How accoun for the hollow roarings of the ea, and for the intability of the climate for many months before and for the dreadful paues that were oberved take place, before the buildings were entirely over turned? It can hardly be doubted but that heaven and earth were combined in compleating our detruction. One element alone has been hardly known to occaion o extenive a devatation;  the udden welling and raging of the ea, we  reaonably ttributeattribute [sic] to the heavings of the earthquake; to which likewie the general ruin of  houes may be in ome meaure attributed.

I have een the ruins of Libon; and if it not almot amount to folly to compare, in th place, great things with mall, I hould ay that the detruction there, great and melancholy as it was, could only have been, by comparion of buildings and extent of population, more dreadful than that calamity which I have now the preumption to decribe. The earthquake at Libon happened in the morning; and although it almot univerally affected its buildings, yet the productions of the earth received, in conequence, but little damage whereas the hurricane in Jamaica continued throughout the night, which has its particular terrors, independently of water, and of wind; and not only blew down every thing within its weep, but prea deolation through the country round; and I am apt to believe, that the peculiar ditrees of the unhappy ufferers of Savanna la-Mar, mut have equalled every thing (I till mean by comparion that is to be met with in the mot melancholy annals of human misfortunes.

To this calamity, another unfortunately ucceeded; and the conequences of which were till more fatal to the lives of thoe who had urvived the