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A35233	The general history of earthquakes being an account of the most remarkable and tremendous earthquakes that have happened in divers parts of the world, from the creation to this time, as they are recorded by sacred and common authors, and perticularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily : with a description of the famous burning mount, Ætna, in that island, and relation of the several dreadful conflagrations and fiery irruptions thereof for many ages : likewise the natural and material causes of earthquakes, with the usual signs and prognosticks of their approach, and the consequents and effects that have followed several of them / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1694 (1694)	Wing C7328; ESTC R40369	98,213	196

So doth my Soul desire alway With thee Lord to remain c. There were others that confirmed the same and assured us moreover that they had heard the whole Psalm sung Less grief it is to be exil'd From mine own House than thine Oh! how I wish t' approach the place Where all thy Glories shine This makes my sorrow to increase And Tears become my Food To hear my Foes reproach my Faith And say Where 's now thy God Past joys renew my grief to think How to thine House we came In Troops to Feast and Praises sing In Consort to thy name c. I consess I only heard a charming Musick which represented a great number of Voices that agreed exceeding well but I could not distinguish the words There was one that raised his Voice above the rest and made himself observed when the rest had done After I had a long while heard this Melody with ravishment I perceived that these Voices drew off and abated by little and little till they were insensibly lost in the Air. The same Evening returning to my own House and discoursing at the Gate with many of my Neighbours of the marvellous things we had heard on a sudden the same Voices again saluted our Ears and filled us with new delight for a quarter of an hour and then withdrew as before The Tuesday following in the Evening being with one of my Relations at the Door of my own House we both heard a great number of Voices in the Air which resou●●… 〈…〉 and made themselves heard with the greatest clearness Upon which I ran hastily to a Popish Physitian who lodged in my House and was that year one of the Magistrates of Orthez to invite him to hear this Divine Melody who following me pretended to hear nothing though the night being calm and serene the singing sounded clearly A while after the Voices reinforced themselves whereupon I pressed him to tell me whether he heard them It is true said he aloud I hear very lovely singing I think I hear the voice of such and such a one naming several Persons in Orthez that sung very well I replied Monsieur if men hold their peace the very Stones will speak But he as if troubled at the confession he had made complains Alas I observe here a crafty Wile of the Devil he causes these Voices to be heard in the Air to keep the World in Error and hinder this poor People from Converting and Imbracing the Catholick Faith I asked him whether he had ever heard the Devil sung the Praises of God he smiled and retired hastily to his lodgings Nevertheless we bless God for his great goodness towards us in admonishing us of our duty by these heavenly voices who melodiously sung those Holy Hymns that we were wont to sound forth in our Church which was then laid wast and destroy'd I protest before God that these things are so as I have reported them and I am very glad to make known these truths for the edification of all those that fear the Lord In Testimony whereof I subscribe my self at Amsterdam Sept. 4. 1686. V. Deformalagnes I shall next insert the Memorial of Monsieur de Brassalay a Gentleman of Honour and acknowledged such by all that know him Some days before the Interdiction of the Churches of Bearn there were many Persons that heard the singing of Psalms in the City of Orthez The first that heard it was Lichagaray Brunier a Lawyer revolted some years since the most malignant of the Persecutors and who continually stir'd up troubles to those of the reformed Religion He rose from his Bed to tell the Curate that there was an Assembly of People who sung Psalms without the City He also went to a Serjeant named Gowlan to conduct him to the place where he thought to surprize them but this Popish Serjeant having laid his Ear to the Window said there was nothing to be done for he plainly perceived the singing was in the Air. Afterward it was often heard for above a month by divers Persons both by night and day Among others M. Canneille an Elder of the Church of Orthez protested to me that sitting reading on the Rivers Bank about a mile from the City he heard a great singing of Psalms on that side the Church stands which is in the midst of the City and not at all doubting but it was an ordinary Assembly met together to Evening Prayers which was then very numerous because of the hazardous conjuncture and consisted at the least of two or three thousand Souls he hastned thither and heard a great singing of Psalms all along till he was entered into the City but finding the Doors shut the Neighbours told him that it was not yet the hour of Prayer It is to no purpose to alledge that they sung in some Cavern or Cave for there is nothing but Houses Vineyards Meadow and Fields thereabout and the strict prohibition against the Protestants singing of Psalms under very severe penalties makes it highly improbable Moreover this Elder told me that he never heard more lofty singing in the Church This Monsieur Brassalay declared as a most certain truth in the presence of many honest men After the Church of Orthez was razed to the Ground this singing ceased till about October following and then was again heard by most of that City and by many that came out of the Countrey to Market and staid till night on purpose It ordinarily happened about the same hour between eight and nine at night some heard the words others the Tune of the Psalm and there is scarce a House in Orthez of which some of the Family hath not heard it Monsieur Brunier aforementioned went one night with two or three others to the usually place without the City and they all three heard the singing for a long time over their heads the Tune of the 138 Psalm whereof they could hear distinctly these words Toward thy Holy Temple I Will look and worship thee And praised with my thankful voice Thy Holy name shall be Even for thy loving kindness sake And for thy Truth withal For thou thy Name hast by thy Word Advanced over all Dr. Faur a Physitian and Magistrate of the City another Papist heard it divers times but their malice made them say they were Sorcerers and Devils A young Damsel of Moncade heard this singing being in her Bed She arose and caused above 50 persons to go out who having heard it fell on their Knees and wept through the joy they conceived to hear such incomparable melody in the Air which continued above half an hour The place of this singing was raised above the City even as a very high Mountain and the People heard this singing over their heads as if it had been in the Clouds I have heard an honest man make this Relation who poured out tears when he spake of it The same thing I heard from other places To conclude it is impossible to doubt of a

left open or by the Fire getting in at the Clefts of the Walls suffered much and are most fallen The Castle at St. Giacomo-Point is quite sunk under ground A Capigee Bassa is sent from hence to Smyrna to look after the Grand Seigniors Interest in taking the Estates of those dead without Heirs which will add affliction to affliction but the publick necessities here are great And the Lord Ambassador of England has sent down an Officer with command from the Grand Visier to be assisting perticulary to our Nation in looking after their concerns LXIII In December following several Earthquakes happened about Naples and Beneventum but without such unfortunate Accidents as attended them some months before Nevertheless that accident being fresh in memory it is not to be imagined in what a consternation the People were and how they fell to their Prayers in several Churches The Monks in those quarters made use of the opportunity to preach That the end of the World was at hand and for that reason endeavoured to a waken the People to give Alms. But in regard saith my Author that the People are not now to be imposed upon as formerly when they used such ways to rear those costly Foundations that are scattered over all Europe they resolved to keep what they had not finding the Monks made better use of their Money than they themselves could do I suppose it will not be deemed presumption to assert that these dreadful shakings of the Earth did seem plainly to presage those Convulsions that happened soon after and may presignify good as well as bad Events Not only the happy Revolutions in these three Kingdoms but also the horrid ruins devastations and miseries which the ambition and barbarity of the French King has occasioned lately in Christendom and which do still continue LXIV Dismal was the Calamity and Judgment which befel the Inhabitants of the Island of Jamaica in the West-Indies upon Tuesday June 7. 1692. by a dreadful Earthquake For about eleven a Clock in the morning the Earth suffered a great Trepidation which in a minutes time was increased to that degree that several Houses began to rumble down and in six or seven minutes or a quarter of an hour at the most made terrible havock and devastation It threw down almost all the Houses Churches Sugar-works Mills and Bridges through the whole Country It tore the Rocks and Mountains and threw them into the Sea but Port Royal had much the greatest share in this astonishing Judgment of God The Minister of that place relates That the same Morning he had been at Prayers in the Church which he never neglected to keep up some shew of Religion amongst a most ungodly debauched People and was gone to a place hard by the Church where the Merchants use to meet and where the President of the Council was designing to dine with one Captain Ruden but his House upon the first concussion sunk first into the Earth and then into the Sea with his Wife and Family and some others that were come to dine with him but the Minister staying some time with the President escaped the danger yet soon after they found the ground rowling and moving under their feet Lord Sir says the Minister What 's this He replied very composedly being a sober grave man It is an Earthquake be not afraid it will soon be over but it increased and they heard the Church and Tower fall upon which they ran to save themselves The Minister quickly lost the President and made toward Morgans Fort which being a wide open place he thought to be securest from falling Houses but as he came near he saw the Earth open and swallow up a multitude of People and the Sea mounting in over the Fortifications He then laid aside all thoughts of escaping and resolved to make towards his own Lodgings and there to meet death in as good a posture as he could and in his way was forced to run through two or three very narrow streets where the Houses and Walls fell on each side of him and some Bricks came rowling over his Shoes but none hurt him When he came to his Lodgings he found all things safe not a Picture of which there were several fair ones in his Chamber displaced He went to the Balconey to view the street in which his House stood and saw never an House down there nor the Ground so much as crackt The People seeing him there cryed out for him to come down and pray with them When he came into the street every one laid hold on his Cloths and embraced him so that with their fear and kindness he was almost stifled He persuaded them at last to kneel down and make a large ring which they did he pray'd with them near an hour when being almost spent with the heat and the exercise they brought him a Chair the Earth working all the while with new motions and tremblings like the rowling of the Sea insomuch that when he was at Prayer he could hardly keep himself upon his Knees By that time he had been about half an hour with them aggravating their sins and provocations and feriously exhorting them to repentance there came some Merchants of the place who desired him to go aboard some Ship in the Harbour refresh himself having got a Boat to carry him off so when he came to the Sea he saw it had swallowed up the Wharf with all those goodly brick Houses upon it most of them as fine as those in Cheapside and two intire Streets beyond that He walked upon the tops of some houses that lay level with the surface of the Water from whence he gotfirst into a Canoo and then into a Long-Boat which put him a Board a Ship called the Siam Merchant where he found the President safe who was overjoyed to see him they could not sleep that night for the returns of the Earthquake almost every hour which made all the Guns in the Ship jar and rattle The next day he went from Ship to Ship to visit those that were bruised and dying and to pray with them and likewise to do the last Office at the sinking of several Corps that came floating from the Point The shakings of the Earth still continued with Thunder and Lightning and foul Weather and the People continued still as desperately wicked as before for that very day this terrible Earthquake happened as soon as night came on a Company of lend Rogues called Privateers fell to breaking open Warehouses and Houses deserted To rob and rifle their Neighbours whilst the Earth trembled under them and some of the Houses fell on them in the Act and those audacious Whores that remained upon the place were as impudent as ever He went again ashoar to pray with the bruised and dying people and to Christen Children where he met too many Drunk and Swearing he did not spare them nor the Magistrates neither who had suffered wickedness to grow to such a height In

the last Sermon he preached in the Church he plainly represented to them the danger of their impenitence and wickedness with so much zeal and earnestness that many now confessed It was more like a Prophecy than a Sermon He says he had many times before an impulse upon his Spirit to Preach those things which he never premeditated at home and could not he thought do otherwise The morning of this dreadful day was very fair and clear affording no suspicion of the least evil but in the space of three minutes about half an hour after eleven in the morning Port-Royal the fairest Town of all the English Plantations the best Emporium and Mart of that part of the World exceeding in its riches plentiful of all good things was shaken and shattered to pieces and sunk into and covered for the greatest part by the Sea Few of the Houses that stood were left whole So that by their falling the opening of the Earth and the Inundation of the Waters it is reckoned there were lost fifteen hundred Persons The Sunday after the Minister Preached to them in a Tent not daring to venture among the shattered Houses the People were overjoyed to see him among them and wept bitterly when he Preached to them It was a sad sight to see all that Harbour one of the fairest and goodliest in America covered with the dead bodies of People of all conditions floating up and down without burial for the great and famous Burial-place called the Pallisadoes was destroyed by the Earthquake and the Sea washed the Carcasses of those that were buried out of their Graves their Tombs being dashed to pieces by the Earthquake of which there were hundreds in that place Multitudes of Rich men were utterly ruined whilst many that were poor by watching opportunities and searching the wrack'd and sunk Houses even almost while the Earthquake lasted and terror and amazement was upon all the considerable People have gotten great riches From St. Anns there was news that above a thousand Acres of Wood-land were turned into the Sea and carried with it whole Plantations but no place suffered like Port-Royal where whole streets were swallowed up by the opening of the Earth and the Houses and Inhabitants went down together Some of them were driven up again by the Sea which arose in those breaches and wonderfully escaped Some were swallowed up to the neck and then the Earth shut upon them and squeezed them to death and in that manner several were left buried with their heads above ground only some Heads the Dogs had eaten Others were covered with dust and Earth by the remaining People to avoid the stench Great bellowing and noises were heard sometime after in the Mountains which made them apprehensive of an Eruption of Fire but thanks be to God no ill Event hath yet succeeded By a second Letter from another worthy Divine and a Minister of the parish of Vere in that Island some Leagues from Port-Royal we have this further Relation of that tremendous Judgment Dated June 30. 1692. On Tuesday June 7. about 11. in the morning it pleased the Just God to visit us with a terrible Earthquake which continued with much violence and terror for about a quarter of an hour as most say but in my opinion not above 6. or 7. minutes in which time it overthrew all the Brick and Stone Buildings in the Countrey whereof several in my own Parish which now are either levelled with the ground or standing Monuments of the wrath of God so shattered and torn that they are irreparable while these were tumbling the Earth opened in my Parish in multitudes of places and though their dire Chasms spewed out Water to a considerable height above ground in such quantities in some places that it made our Gullies run on a sudden though before exceeding dry insomuch that some were afraid of being overwhelmed at once by the River and Sea joyning together to swallow up the Countrey these gaping mouths being no less than 12 20. or more foot deep under the Earth and above two miles up in the Countrey especially nigh the River in the purest mould which had not Clay nor other consolidating Matter beneath to oppose the force of the Fountains of the Deep breaking up for where that was we do not find any cracks of the Earth at all And yet it pleased God that we in this Parish have escaped the danger much better than our Neighbour Parishes for happening to content our selves with mean and low-built Houses generally of Timber and Boarded or with Cratches set deep in the ground and plaistred such Houses are generally standing So that we have means to assist one another whilst in other parts hundreds of Souls are cast out of their dwellings and have not a place to hide their Heads in except in Booths and Tents which they have since built to shade themselves from the Sun Our noted Town of St. John de la Vega Or The Spanish Town is utterly down to the ground and its Church devoured in the same Ruins Our Magazine and only Store-House of Port-Royal is three parts swallowed up in the Sea Ships and Shallops now riding at Anchor where great numbers of fine Fabricks stood not long since Many eminent Merchants worth thousands have scarce any thing left but the blue Linnen on their backs several are dead either overwhelmed with their Houses or drowned in the Sea which flowed in suddenly upon them For while they fled from the Sea the Earth devoured them in her gaping Jaws or they were killed with the falling Houses and while they fled from the gaping Chasms of the Earth or the tottering buildings the Sea met and swept them away A whole Street called the Wharf where most of the noted Merchants lived and where much of the Planters goods were landed for convenience of Sale and Shipping particularly Sugar and Cotten sunk at once from one end to the other with a general crack at the very begining of the Ear thquake together with two Forts Guns c. thereon and all that were upon or nigh it perished in an instant without warning and soon after while the People were in the greatest horror and consternation imaginable not knowing whither to fly for safety two or three more Streets in their whole length rottered and fell and were immediately funk ground and all together deep into the Sea as far as the Jews Street All the Upper part of the Town with the Church and all above the Pallisadoes is under Water even the very Pallisadoes it self where their burying place was is now no longer Earth but Sea and the dead Corps floated from thence to all parts of the Harbour The Houses that yet remain are many of them so rent and torn and others so deeply sunk into the Water even up to their Balconies that they are unserviceable The Wall at the Pallisadoes is utterly ruin'd with the Port thereto belonging and though Morgans Line and Walkers Fort yet stand they

are sorely shaken and rent and so sunk they are not tenable the whole place that is yet above Water sinking daily by those Earthquakes we have ever since had sometimes 4 5 6. times more or less in 24. hours I my self while I am now writing expecting when the Earth will tremble under me though in other parts of the Countrey through Gods mercys we do not hear of any further damage since the first The reputed number of the Dead for perhaps there will never be an exact Account is reckoned about 1500 persons besides Negro's who are thought to be 6. or 700 more a multitude of whose Black Corps floated many days from one side of the Harbour to the other which caused such an intollerable stench that the dead were like to destroy the Living till at last some were sunk and others dispersed by the Sea-breeze Imediately upon the Cessation of the Earthquake your heart would abhor to hear of the Robberyes and Violences committed in an instant upon the place by the vilest and basest of the People No man could call any thing his own for they that were strongest and most wicked seized what and whose they pleased without regard to the Owners Gold and Silver Jewels Plate or Goods was all their own if they could lay hands on them Nothing but breaking open Houses rushing into Shops and taking from the owners what they pleased even before their faces Yea Robbing them of Money and goods in the open Street as they were carrying them to other places for security whilst others in Canoes Wherries Ship-boats c. were plundring Chests Boxes Scriptores c. of what they could find in them upon the Water Even the very Slaves thinking it their time of Liberty committed many barbarous Insolencies and Robberyes till they were supprest by the Death of some and punishment of others And indeed our first fears were concerning our Blacks those irreconciliable and yet intestine Enemies of ours who are no otherwise our Subjects than as the whip makes them who seeing our strongest Houses demolisht our Army broken and hearing of the destruction of our greatest dependency the Town of Port-Royal might in hopes of Liberty be stirred up to rise in Rebellion against us which is a War always the more terrible by how much there is no quarter given in it but they kill and slay all the Whites Men Women and Children that they can Conquer But God be praised those fears are now blown over Many days did these Depredations last especially upon the Water where the dead were Rob'd of what they had about them some stript others searched their Pockets pick'd their Fingers cut off for their Rings their Gold Buttons taken out of their shirts and then they were turn'd adrift again From thence was taken all manner of stores that would swim every one taking that for his own which he could lay his hands on as Pork Beef Mackril Saltfish Coaca Candle Soap Wine Beer Brandy and a vast deal of other things not to be thought of or reckoned up So that the richest became poorest and the meanest of the people were inriched by the losses of others to estimate which seems as difficult as to reckon the number of the People lost and destroyed Port-Royal in its flourishing condition was a famous Empory and Mart Town for the West Indle's and the Archinto being setled there a very large share of the riches of Mexico and Peru were brought thither and vast sums of Coin and Bullion yearly transported for England to the great inriching of the Jamaican Merchants and Factors so that it was hard to compare what was lost but many think at least the value of four hundred Thousand Pound at Port-Royall only Yet in the midst of this woful Calamity some People were miracolously preserved from Death being swallowed down into the Bowels of the Earth alive yet spued up again and saved by the violent Eruption of Water through those Gaps Others as themselves affirm if they were then capable of knowing what was done to them were swallowed up in one place and by the rushing of the Waters to and fro by reason of the Agitartion of the Earth at that time were cast up again by another Chasm at places far distant But the general means of Preservation was by Peoples flying as fast as they could toward the back Sea side or speedily getting aboard the Ships in the Harbour which were croudded with Men Women and Children Among others a Man of War the Swallow then in Harbour was so damaged by the fall of the Houses that she became utterly unserviceable and Twelve Shallops were sunk by the same means Likewise Ligania the first and principal Town for Planting and imitating if not exceeding the stately Buildings of Port-Royal is now brought to most terrible Desolation and its fine New Built and yet Unfinished Church buried in the same ruin with the Houses Above which place the Costly Blue Mountains lift up their heads but are now so rent and torn that they are fearful to behold and stand like lasting marks of Divine Wrath which hath also happened in other parts of the Countrey which is very Hilly in the middle so that by the fall of a Mountain into the Channel of the River which supplies both this Town and Port-Royal with Water the River became dry for sixteen hours together to the terror of the Inhabitants fearing the Desertion as well as Desolation of the place till it afterwards Run again as formerly and they were informed of the cause of the Stoppage of the Water for so long a time This among other reasons was the Cause why the People that were saved at Port-Poyal were almost perished for Thirst in their deep Extremity their own Water-casks being either ruined or swam away into the Sea and no Boats to fetch any in that Dismal Consternation or otherwise imployed to save Peoples Lives or to get Plunder Or if any did go there was no Water to be had so that it was hard to be gotten and very dear many paying great rates only to quench their Thirst And yet for all these Woful Disasters great Numbers of People are not all Reformed of their Wickedness which brought them upon us but there is the same Whoring and Drinking the same Cursing and Swearing if not worse than formerly So that we have cause to fear the Judgment of Sodom may be our next punishment In the midst of our Distress it pleased God to give us a Signal Victory over our Enemies the French who happened at that time to make the Sharpest Attack upon us since the War having Landed as we hear Two Hundred men on the North side of the Island which is but weakly furnisht with men where they intrenched themselves but were shamefully beaten out by a Vigorous Attack in the Night by a Party of about Thirty Men who Slew Seven or Eight outright and the rest flying to their Boats Thirty of them were drowned While in the mean