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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 78 ] not a mark of the wrath of heaven, is at leaft a fignthat the earth is weary of them, efpecially in thofe parts where they have ftained it with fo much innocent blood. The city of Lima not many moons ago, was fwallowed up by an Earthquake : and Calao, another city not far from it, was confumed by a fhower of fire out of the clouds, 11,000 Spaniards loft their lives in this calamity; and the earth devoured an hundred mil¬ lions of refined filver, which the lucre of the Spaniards had forced out or its bowels. All the mountains of Fo- tofi, from whence they dug their choci eft metal, were levelled with the plain, and no more hopes of gold was left to their infatiable avarice. Concerning this city Lima in the kingdom of Peru, we had a fad account of another Earthquake there, Odbober 20. 1687. (if it be not the fame, and the date miftaken) which overthrew the whole town, nor leav¬ ing one houfe Handing ; and buried many of the inha¬ bitants under its ruins. At the fame time Callao, Fa- nette, Pifco, Chancay, los Florillos, 1110ft of them fea-port towns, were d ftroyed by an inundation or the fea, which carried feveral fhips above three leagues into the country; and great num1 ers of people and cattle were drowned, there being found, when the water fell, at one place near the fea-fide, above 5000 people dead ; and every day more were found, fo that no ac¬ count could be given of their number. This was mentioned in the 3 London Gazette, and confirmed by many merchants letters; though the damage by the inundation was leffened by another account afterwards. * An. 1688. Num. 2349. C H A P.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
