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13 ruins! The stench arising from the bodies, is intolerable—such of them  could be come at, have been thrown into  sea, or collected into heaps and burned  ashes.

It is imagined that seven-eights of the in this city are demolished, and of  which still stand there are not perhaps  that will be found tenable. The, which was built very strong, not much injured—the house which I  is three stories high, and was likewise very strong—it stood the shock without falling, but it was so  injured that  do not intend to sleep in it, especially as we are continually kept in a state of alarm  the frequent shocks which have daily  place ever since the 26th ult. When first great shock occurred, I ran out of  house, and in my amazement, I turned, and beheld it rocking like a cradle, , with the roaring of the earthquake,  screams of the people, and the crashing  of a thousand buildings, made the  horrible beyond description!”