Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.

  • John Shower
Date:
1750
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Credit: Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Practical Reflections O N INTRODUCTION. An hiftorical, particular account of the late Earthquakes, which gave occasion to this difcourfe. The defign there¬ of propofed from that p’ajfage of the Pfalmift, My Re fh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. ^ HAT the late Earthquakes may be confider- ed, and improved to the bed purpofes, it will be proper to premife a fhort narrative, or hi¬ ftorical account of them, according to the order of time wherein they happened. And therefore I begin with that of Jamaica. In the year 1692. on the 7th of June, there happen¬ ed a dreadful Earthquake in the ifland of Jamaica, which made great Ruins and devaluations throughout the whole country; but especially in the capital town of Pert-Royal, which was almoft fwallowed up and overflowed by the finking of the earth, and irruption of the fea. Two letters from the minifter of the place (publifhed by au¬ thority,) give a particular account of it; that it threw down mod of the houfes, churches, fugar and indigo- works, mills and bridges, throughout the whole ifland, that it tore the rocksj^id mountains, (others tell us that it levelled fome mountains, and reduced them to plains) B that
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