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 disfigured the face of the country? How for the hollow roarings of the ſea, and for the  of the climate for many months  and for the dreadful pauſes that were obſerved  take place, before the buildings were entirely over-turned? It can hardly be doubted but that and earth were combined in compleating our deſtruction. One element alone has been hardly known to occaſion ſo extenſive a devaſtation;  the ſudden ſwelling and raging of the ſea, we m reaſonably attribute to the heavings of the earthquake; to which likewiſe the general ruin of  houſes may be in ſome meaſure attributed.

I have ſeen the ruins of Liſbon; and if it not almoſt amount to folly to compare, in  place, great things with ſmall, I ſhould ſay  the deſtruction there, great and melancholy as  was, could only have been, by compariſon of buildings and extent of population, more dreadful  that calamity which I have now the preſumption  deſcribe. The earthquake a Liſbon happened the morning and although it almoſt  affected its buildings, yet the productions of  earth received, in conſequence, tut little damage, whereas the hurricane in Jamaica continued throughout the night, which has its particular terrors, independently of water, and of wind; and not  blew down every thing within its ſweep, but  deſolation through the country round, and I  apt to believe, that the peculiar diſtreſſes of  unhappy ſufferers of Savanna-la-Mar, muſt  equalled every thing (i ſtill mean by compariſon) that is to be met with in the moſt melancholy annals of human misfortunes.

To this calamity, another unfortunately ſucceeded; and the conſequences of which were ſtill fatal to the lives of thoſe who had ſurvived the